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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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793867203321

Autore

Hansson Joacim <1966->

Titolo

Educating librarians in the contemporary university : an essay on iSchools and emancipatory resilience in library and information science / / Joacim Hansson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sacramento, California : , : Library Juice Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-63400-103-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)

Disciplina

020.711

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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'"--