Polity

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-62637-693-9
Verlag: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible with stark social inequalities? Why are so many democratic governments deemed unaccountable and beset by populist pressures? Perhaps most fundamentally, why does democratic theory have no answers to these questions?
Foweraker argues that finding answers requires a root-and-branch revision of our thinking about democracy—a revision that asks us to stop talking about “democracy” and start talking about “polity.” Drawing on the political realities of Latin America, he describes polity as a system encompassing the distinct but conjoined domains of oligarchy and democracy; and he offers a conceptual framework that identifies the key components and logic of polity. His innovative analysis affords a better understanding not only of democracy in Latin America, but also of democratic regimes around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foweraker, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Latin American Polity.
Polity as a Political System.
The Making of the Modern Polity.
State, Regime, and Civil Society.
Polity, Inequality, and the Republic.
Populism and Polity.
Constitutionalism and Polity.
Polity, Rights, and Protest.
Demystifying Democracy.

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Foweraker is honorary professor of politics at the University of Exeter, as well as emeritus fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where he previously was professor of Latin American politics.