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UNINA9910791948403321 |
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Fierlbeck Katherine |
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Titolo |
Globalizing Democracy [[electronic resource] ] : Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 1998 |
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1-78170-141-5 |
1-84779-431-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Perspectives on Democratic Practice |
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Democracy |
Democracy -- Philosophy |
Democracy - 1989- |
World politics |
Political Science |
Law, Politics & Government |
Political Theory of the State |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Part 1 Contextualizing the debate over democracy; I Interpreting democracy: philosophicaldebates; 2 The ambiguity of democracy; 3 Expanding democracy; 4 Can there be nonliberal democracy?; Part 2 Explaining democracy: causal debates; 5 The market; 6 Civil society; Part 3 Pursuing democracy: political debates; 7 Power, legitimacy, and the interpretation ofdemocracy; 8 Deromanticizing democracy; Bibliography; Index |
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This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the 'democratic project' which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. But as agreement decreases regarding the definition of democracy, the less we are able to evaluate how it is working, or indeed whether it is working at all.The second |
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issue is causal: what are the claims being |
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UNINA9910793867203321 |
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Autore |
Hansson Joacim <1966-> |
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Educating librarians in the contemporary university : an essay on iSchools and emancipatory resilience in library and information science / / Joacim Hansson |
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Sacramento, California : , : Library Juice Press, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) |
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Information science - Social aspects |
Library education - Social aspects |
Library science - Social aspects |
Information science - Social aspects - Europe |
Information science - Study and teaching (Higher) - Social aspects |
Library science - Social aspects - Europe |
Library education - Social aspects - Europe |
Information science - Study and teaching (Higher) - Social aspects - Europe |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Building a profession, with an education to go -- On librarianship and democracy, soft and hard -- Universities and the speed of life -- The open core of Library and Information Science -- Education for librarianship moving forward. |
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"Analyzes the development of library and information science in the contemporary university, in light of present critical social theory, focusing on such aspects as academic acceleration, organizational accretion and the rise of an "'entrepreneurial spirit'"-- |
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