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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791948403321

Autore

Fierlbeck Katherine

Titolo

Globalizing Democracy [[electronic resource] ] : Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 1998

ISBN

1-78170-141-5

1-84779-431-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on Democratic Practice

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Democracy

Democracy -- Philosophy

Democracy - 1989-

World politics

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Political Theory of the State

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



issue is causal: what are the claims being