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Democracy : Problems and Perspectives / Roland Axtmann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748620098
  • 9780748629121
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Kant’s Republicanism and the Cosmopolitan Persuasion -- 2 The Languages of Human Rights and the Liberal Dialect -- 3 The Globalisation of Democracy: The Right to Democratic Governance -- 4 Sovereignty and Democracy -- 5 Liberal Democracy between Multiculturalism and Globalisation -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Democracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments about democratic practice. On the basis of an interpretation of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy, the book presents democracy as a regime type in which citizens, who are united to give law, rule themselves and where such self-rule is exercised by citizens who embrace local and global patriotism. In the course of developing this idea of democracy, the book addresses issues such as human rights and their relationship to democracy; the policy of the global promotion of human rights and democracy; sovereignty and the nation-state; popular sovereignty and multicultural citizenship; and cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy. The book will stimulate controversial discussions about the varieties of democratic imaginations and visions, past and present as well as the future of democracy in the current stage of globalisation. Key FeaturesPresents a broad range of thinkers, theoretical and political positions and arguments Clearly links theory and practice Uses case studies to elucidate the theories discussed Covers a broad range of theories of democracy
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Kant’s Republicanism and the Cosmopolitan Persuasion -- 2 The Languages of Human Rights and the Liberal Dialect -- 3 The Globalisation of Democracy: The Right to Democratic Governance -- 4 Sovereignty and Democracy -- 5 Liberal Democracy between Multiculturalism and Globalisation -- Bibliography -- Index

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Democracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments about democratic practice. On the basis of an interpretation of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy, the book presents democracy as a regime type in which citizens, who are united to give law, rule themselves and where such self-rule is exercised by citizens who embrace local and global patriotism. In the course of developing this idea of democracy, the book addresses issues such as human rights and their relationship to democracy; the policy of the global promotion of human rights and democracy; sovereignty and the nation-state; popular sovereignty and multicultural citizenship; and cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy. The book will stimulate controversial discussions about the varieties of democratic imaginations and visions, past and present as well as the future of democracy in the current stage of globalisation. Key FeaturesPresents a broad range of thinkers, theoretical and political positions and arguments Clearly links theory and practice Uses case studies to elucidate the theories discussed Covers a broad range of theories of democracy

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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