Format:
Online-Ressource (IV, 207 S.)
ISBN:
9781442218086
Series Statement:
Globalization
Content:
Combining theory with compelling case studies, this book examines the globalizing world of democracy. Noted critical scholars Stephen J. Rosow and Jim George argue that democracy must be understood not as a unified concept but as a diversity of political responses to specific conditions and political struggles. Doing so reveals how democracy is taking multiple forms around the world in response to neoliberal globalism and to state control of everyday life. The authors show how the current phase of globalization is destabilizing the dominance of Western democracy promotion, as resisters challen
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. One or Many Forms of Democracy?; Chapter 1. Democracy in Historical Context: Toward Heterodoxy; Chapter 2. Neoliberalism and Democracy: Debate, Conflict, and Contestation in the Current Era; Chapter 3. What Does Democracy Mean in the Neoliberal Era? The Case of Venezuela and "Bolivarian Democracy"; Chapter 4. Democracy as a Challenge to Neoliberalism: Heterodoxy in South Africa, India, and Russia; Chapter 5. Globalization and the Destabilization of Democracy; Chapter 6. New Democratic Subjects in Neoliberal Globalization; Notes; Selected Bibliography
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IndexAbout the Authors
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442218109
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442218086
Additional Edition:
Print version Globalization and Democracy
Language:
English
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