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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973152903321

Titolo

Transformations of Democracy : Crisis, Protest and Legitimation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Rowman and Littlefield International, Ltd, , [2015]

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2015

ISBN

979-88-8181-755-8

1-78348-089-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CelikatesRobin <1977->

KreideRegina

WescheTilo <1968->

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Social movements

Protest movements

Civil disobedience

Democracy

Mouvements sociaux

Contestation

Desobeissance civile

SOCIAL SCIENCE - General

Case studies.

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

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Democracy in Crisis?""; ""1 The European Crisis""; ""2 Democracy in Crisis""; ""3 Radical Philosophy Encounters the Uprisings""; ""4 Citizenship, Democracy and the Plurality of Means, Forms and Levels of Participation""; ""Part II: Disobedience, Protest and the Public Sphere""; ""5 Being Agitated�Agitated Being""; ""6 An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation""; ""7 Resisting Resistance""; ""8 Digital Publics, Digital Contestation""; ""Part III: Democracy Revisited: New Normative Foundations for Democracy?""

""9 Is There a Human Right to Democracy?""""10 Democracy and Moral Rights""; ""11 Normative Sources of Democratic Deliberation""; ""12



Democratic Autonomy and Democratic Authority""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""

Sommario/riassunto

Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe.   Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this collection examines the multiple transformations which both the practice and the idea of democracy are undergoing today. It starts by questioning whether there is a crisis of democracy, or if part of this crisis lies in the inadequacy of social and political theory