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This open access book features contributions from a multidisciplinary team of leading and emerging scholars focused on democratization of risk assessment, management, and communication. The volume identifies and sheds light on key risk governance dilemmas related to public trust, risk perception and public participation. The first part of the book articulates the relationship among science, expertise, deliberation and public values, featuring an in-depth analysis of the concept of motivated reasoning, and the role of trust, values and worldviews in understanding and addressing contemporary controversies over risk decision-making. The volumes second part features eight case studies from three policy fields energy, genomics, and public health and a special section dedicated to vaccine decision-making for Covid-19. Chapters analyze the level, nature and mechanisms of public involvement in risk decision-making, assessing its contribution to the effectiveness and legitimacy of decisions. The case studies focus predominantly on Canada, but they draw on global scholarship and are of direct relevance for scholars and practitioners of risk governance in any country. Monica Gattinger is Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Full Professor at the School of Political Studies and Founding Chair of Positive Energy at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Gattinger is an award-winning researcher and highly sought-after speaker, adviser and media commentator in the energy and arts/cultural policy sectors. Her innovative research programme convenes business, government, Indigenous, civil society and academic leaders to address complex policy, regulatory and governance challenges. She has published widely in the energy and arts/cultural policy fields, with a focus on strengthening decision-making in the context of fast-past technological change and markets, changing social values, and fluctuating levels of trust in governments, industry, science and expertise. Gattinger is Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, board member of the Clean Resource Innovation Network, and serves on advisory boards for the Institute on Governance, the National Research Council Canada, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Pollution Probe and the University of Calgary. Monica received the 2020 Clean50 Award for her thought leadership in the energy sector. She holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Carleton University.

Democratization. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies

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Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics

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Charting and comparing Tunisia's, Algeria's, Morocco's and Mauritania's political development over the past 10 years, this book offers fresh and original insight into their contrasting experiences as well as extending Levitsky and Way's model.

Democratization --- Political culture --- Culture --- Political science --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Africa, North --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Politics and government --- 2000-2099

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How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state. The authors bring perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, their chapters engaging with the concept of transnational democracy by tracing its development in the past, assessing its performance in the present, and considering its potential for survival in this century and beyond. Coming from a wide array of intellectual disciplines and policymaking backgrounds, the authors share a common conviction that our global institutions-both governments and international organizations-must become more resilient, transparent, and democratically accountable in order to address the cascading political, economic, and social crises of this new epoch, such as climate change, mass migration, more frequent and severe natural disasters, and resurgent authoritarianism. This book will be relevant for courses in international relations and political science, environmental politics, and the preservation of democracy and federalism around the world.

Democratization --- Government accountability --- Political culture --- History --- Culture --- Political science --- Accountability in government --- Public administration --- Responsibility --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- Political culture. --- Anthropocene Epoch

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Daunting challenges lie ahead for Arab countries where revolutions have upended longstanding authoritarian regimes. This monograph aims to help policymakers understand the challenges ahead, form well-founded expectations, shape diplomatic approaches, and take practical steps to foster positive change.

Arab countries -- Politics and government. --- Democracy -- Arab countries. --- Democratization -- Arab countries. --- Democratization --- Democracy --- Government - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Government - Asia --- Arab countries --- Politics and government. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies