Isakhan / Slaughter Democracy and Crisis

Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-32604-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 273 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Political Science Collection

Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like Global Financial Crisis, the Arab Revolutions and Wikileaks this volume highlights tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis and examines the prospects of democratising governance in the 21st Century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Isakhan, B.

Slaughter, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century; Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter PART I: RECONSIDERING GOVERNANCE 1. Decentreing Governance: A Democratic Turn?; Mark Bevir 2. The Democratic Accountability of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector; Jacob Torfing PART II: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND DEMOCRACY 3. The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Public Reasoning; Matthias Goldmann 4. Neo-Liberal Governance and the Protest Politics of the Occupy Movement; Daniel Bray 5. Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: The European Union's Crisis of De-Politicisation; Natalie J. Doyle 6. Disintegrating European Austerity in Greece and Germany; Roderic Pitty PART III: TRANSITIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ATTEMPTS TO DE3MOCRATISE GOVERNANCE 7. Democratising Governance after the Arab Revolutions: The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance Networks of Egypt; Benjamin Isakhan 8. WikiLeaks and the Limits of Representative Democracy and Transnational Democratisation; Steven Slaughter PART IV: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRATIC CRISES 9. Global Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy; Roland Axtmann 10. Global Unionism and Global Governance; Andrew Vandenberg 11. Climate Crises and the Limits of Liberal Democracy? Germany, Australia and India Compared; James Goodman and Tom Morton Conclusion: The Future of Democratic Governance ; Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter

Über Autor(innen)

Roland Axtmann, Swansea University, UK
Mark Bevir University of California at Berkeley, USA
Daniel Bray La Trobe University, Australia
Natalie J. DoyleMonash University, Australia
Matthias Goldmann Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany
James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Tom Morton, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Roderic Pitty University of Western Australia
Jacob Torfing, Roskilde University, Denmark
Andrew Vandenberg, Deakin University, Australia