Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cape Town, South Africa : , : Tafelberg, , 1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (388 p.)
Disciplina	321.8 321.9
Altri autori (Persone)	GiliomeeHermann Buhr <1938-> SimkinsC. E. W (Charles Edward Wickens)
Soggetto topico	Totalitarianism Democracy Political parties - South Africa Political parties - Taiwan Political parties - Mexico Political parties - Malaysia
ISBN	1-135-29716-9 1-135-29717-7 1-280-15582-5 0-203-98964-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Dominant Party Regimes of South Africa, Mexico, Taiwan and Malaysia: A Comparative Assessment; 2 Stability and Competitiveness in the Political Configurations of Semi Developed Countries Charles Simkins; 3 A Born-Again Dominant Party?; 4 No Easy Stroll to Dominance; 5 The Resilience of One-Party Dominance in Malaysia and Singapore; 6 Dominant Party and Opposition Parties in Mexico; 7 Bridge or Bridgehead?; 8 The Transformation of Labor-Based One-Partyism at the End of the 20th Century; 9 The Mexican Paradox 10 Corporatism as Minority Veto under ANC Hegemony in South Africa11 Democracy or Democratic Hegemony?; 12 Grassroots Electoral Organization and Political Reform in the ROC on Taiwan and Mexico; 13 Does Democracy Require an Opposition Party?; 14 Conclusion; Index;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910783977303321

Autore	Hewlett Nick
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (194 p.)
Disciplina	320.092/244
Collana	Continuum studies in Continental philosophy
Soggetto topico	Political science - Philosophy Democracy Equality
ISBN	1-4725-4614-8 1-282-45261-4 9786612452611 1-4411-9272-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Acknowledgements -- Note on translations -- Abbreviations -- Contexts and parameters -- Characteristics of modern French thought -- The legacy of Louis Althusser -- Concluding remarks -- Alain Badiou: event, subject and truth -- The role of philosophy -- Truth -- The event, movement and change -- Concluding remarks -- The paradoxes of Alain Badiou's theory of politics -- Politics, the event and the truth procedure -- Against and beyond the postmodern -- Marxism and historical materialism -- Democracy -- Parliamentary politics -- Badiou's political activism -- Concluding remarks -- Jacques Ranciere: politics is equality is democracy -- Listening to the unheard -- Liberal democracy and language -- Defining the political -- Democracy and post-democracy -- Concluding remarks -- Etienne Balibar: emancipation, equaliberty, citizenship -- The political -- Ambivalence, universality, ideology -- Political violence -- Lenin and Gandhi -- Concluding remarks -- With and beyond Badiou, Balibar and Rancire -- References and bibliography -- Index 1. Introduction -- 2. Alain Badiou's Theory of the Event -- 3. The Paradoxes of Alain Badiou's Theory of Politics -- 4. Race, Nation, Subjecthood: Etienne Balibar -- 5. Politics is Equality is Democracy: Jacques Rancière -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457149303321

Autore	Gowa Joanne S
Edizione	[Core Textbook]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (149 p.)
Disciplina	327.1/01
Soggetto topico	Peace Democracy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	9786613310385 1-4008-2298-X 1-283-31038-4 1-4008-1182-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments / Gowa, Joanne -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Analytic Foundations of the Democratic Peace -- CHAPTER 3. Legislators, Voters, and the Use of Force Abroad -- CHAPTER 4. Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace / Farber, Henry -- CHAPTER 5. Interests and Alliances: Comparing Two International Systems -- CHAPTER 6. Explaining Relative Dispute-Rate Patterns -- CHAPTER 7. Conclusion -- References -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457510903321

Autore	Fuller Roslyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (426 p.)
Disciplina	321.8
Soggetto topico	Democracy Democracy - History Political structures: democracy
ISBN	1-350-21860-X 1-78360-544-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Beasts and Gods -- Introduction: What Is Democracy? -- Part I -- 1: Democracy in Athens: People Power is Born -- How Athenian Democracy Worked -- Random Power: The Key to Democratic Success in Athens -- 2: The Myth of Representation -- First-Past-the-Post: The Winner Takes It All -- Other Electoral Systems -- Modern Democracy as Symbolic Democracy -- 3: Buying and Selling Elections -- The High Cost of Campaigning -- You Get What You Pay for: The Vicious Circle of Political Donations and Government Action -- A Fistful of Euros: Buying Irish Local Elections -- Representative Democracy: Second Place is the First Loser -- Why Referenda Fail -- Why Regulation Fails -- Elections: The Perfect Habitat for Manipulation -- 4: Participation: Bought In or Locked Out? -- The Struggle to Participate in Modern Democracy -- Participation in Modern Democracy: Running to Stand Still -- The Athenian View on Participation -- Different But (More) Equal: Decision-Making in Athens -- From Ancient Duty to Modern Privilege -- 5: Modern Democracy and the International System: A Perfect Storm -- The United Nations -- The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund -- At the International Casino the House Always Wins -- 6: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Civil Society Chimera -- The Nature of Modern NGOs: Charity Begins in the Boardroom -- The Dark Underbelly of NGO Lobbying: Roundtables, Drugs and Lots of Cash -- Representative Democracy and the International System: Fertile Ground for Oligarchy -- 7: How Did Things Get to Be This Way? The Roman Republican System and the Founding Fathers of America -- Roman Politics: Déjà Vu -- All Sizzle and No Steak: The Roman System Rots at the Core. Forgotten Fathers: Anti-Federalists, Republicans and the Battle for the US Constitution -- Part II -- 8: The Way Forward: Digital Democracy -- The Long-Term Dangers of Electoral Democracy -- Why International Power Cannot Fix Democracy -- Digital Democracy Takes Off: Citizens' Budgets and Crowdsourced Constitutions -- The Next Frontier: Online Decisions with Loomio and DemocracyOS -- 9: Disinformed is Disenfranchised: Why Taming Mass Media is a Necessary Step Towards Democracy -- The Medium and the Message: How Communication Methods Affect Decision-Making -- Using Mass Media to Guide Public Discourse -- The Meaning of Mass Media for Democracy -- Battlefield Internet: How Many Soldiers Does It Take to Run a Facebook Account? -- Reclaiming the Narrative by Funding Massive Participation Instead of Mass Media -- Mass Media: The Single Biggest Threat to Democracy -- 10: Democracy and Dissent: The Balance Between Individual and Community -- The Truth about Individual Rights in Athens -- Fact is Stranger than Fiction: The Extraordinary Trial of Socrates -- Protecting Democracy from Dissenters -- A Fragile Balance: The Economy, the Rule of Law and Democracy -- Rebalancing the Economy Today -- The Old Bugbear: Tyranny of the Majority -- Community and the Individual: Yin and Yang -- 11: Direct Democracy Today: Cutting the Gordian Knot -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910797844803321