Doing Democracy Differently : Political Practices and Transnational Civil Society / / Henrike Knappe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910424561003321
• Autore: Knappe Henrike, Dr.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leverkusen, : Budrich UniPress, 2017
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Soggetti: democracy; transnationalism; deliberation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Doing Democracy Differently. Political Practices and Transnational Civil Society -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Conceptual Foundations of Democratic Practice in Transnational Civil Society Networks -- 1 Practice Theory: a New Perspective on Transnational Politics and Democracy -- 1.1 Defining and Changing Rules "as we go along" -- 1.2 Practicing Norms -- 1.3 Political Practice and Democratic Norms -- 2 Participatory and Deliberative Democracy: From Equality Norms to Argumentative Rationalities -- 2.1 Participatory Democracy -- 2.1.1 Equality and Popular Sovereignty -- 2.1.2 The Triad of Participation, Equality and Freedom -- 2.2 Deliberative Democracy -- 2.2.1 The Epistemic Perspective on Deliberation -- 2.2.2 The Participatory Claims of Deliberative Democracy -- 2.3 The Prospects of Participatory and Deliberative Democracy for Transnational Civil Society Networks -- 2.4 Conclusions -- 3 Representation and Democracy: Performing Control and Accountability -- 3.1 Authors, Personations and Organs -- 3.2 Democratic Norms and Forms of Representation -- 3.3 The Prospects of Non-electoral Representation for Transnational Civil Society Networks -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Part II Exploring Political Practice inTwo Transnational Civil Society Networks -- 4 Researching Practices -- 4.1 Methodological Assumptions of aReconstructive Analysis -- 4.2 Qualitative Semi-structured Interviews -- 4.3 The Method of ; Reconstructive Analysis -- 4.4 The Cases -- 5 Political Practices in Transnational Civil Society Networks - An Exploration -- 5.1 A Campaign for Better Working Conditions in the Garment Industry: the CCC -- 5.2 A Network for Environmental Protection Worldwide: FoE -- 5.3 The Political Practices of Representation, Participation and Deliberation -- 5.4 Conclusions -- 6 Situated Democratic Norms.; 6.1 Participatory Norms and Practices -- 6.2 Deliberative Norms and Practices -- 6.3 Representative Norms and Practices -- 7 Conclusions: Transnational Democratic Practice -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. Still, the exploration of democracy in such networks remains conceptually and methodologically challenging. Practice theory provides a framework to study democracy as routinized performances even in contexts of fluid boundaries, temporal relations and a diffuse constituency. The author attempts to understand how new forms of democratic practice emerge in the interaction between political actors and their structural environments.