Ayers A Global Political Economy of Democratisation

Beyond the Internal-External Divide
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-71037-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an ‘Age of Democratisation’, a time when democracy was heralded as the best of all political systems. Yet ‘Democracy’ has different meanings and values to different people and debates around this are of a fundamental interest to those studying global political economy and global politics. This book presents these deliberations in a new light by moving beyond the concept of the sovereign state as the dominant framework of enquiry and by rejecting the primacy of the state and the categorical separation of the ‘domestic’ and the ‘international’. Instead, the book moves beyond the methodological nationalism of most comparative political analysis and creates an understanding of democracy linked to the global political economy by providing alternative narratives of struggles over democratization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ayers, Alison J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I: Theoretical and Methodological Underpinnings

1. Beyond the State We’re In: The Mutual Constitution of the Domestic and International Domains



PART II: Democratisation Revisited – The Liberal Project Redux

2. Ideology of Imperialism: Capitalism, Liberalism and Democracy

3. ‘We All Know A Democracy When We See One’: Promulgating the Orthodox Notion of Democracy

4. Imperial Liberties: The Global Constitution of (Neo)Liberal Democracy in Africa

5. Encountering the Orthodoxy: More on the Limits and Antinomies of (Neo)Liberal Democracy



PART III: Expropriating the Expropriators – Reclaiming African Political History

6. Peoples Without Democracy? Precolonial Political Communities and Mindscapes

7. Enter the (Neo)Colony: Anti-Democracy and the (Neo)Colonial Condition



Conclusion: Eight Theses Towards a Substantive Democracy

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Alison Ayers is Research Associate in the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. She has held faculty positions at the University of Southampton and Simon Fraser University and was Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. Previous employment included research and programme work in Africa, Latin America and the UK, with community and indigenous organisations, NGOs, the United Nations and leading research institutes. She is editor of Gramsci, Political Economy and International Relations Theory: Modern Princes and Naked Emperors (2008/2013) and has published recent articles in Citizenship Studies, Critical Sociology, International Politics, New Political Economy, Policy and Society, Political Studies, Review of African Political Economy, Studies in Political Economy, and Third World Quarterly.