TY - BOOK ID - 77891657 TI - Globalizing Democracy PY - 2008 SN - 1781701415 1847794319 9781847794314 9781847795182 1847795188 9781847792150 1847792154 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Democracy. KW - Democracy -- Philosophy. KW - Democracy KW - World politics KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Political Theory of the State KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - Political science KW - World history KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - Self-government KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - civil society. KW - comparative development. KW - democratic norms. KW - democratic system. KW - democratic theory. KW - democratization debates. KW - developing states. KW - economic well-being. KW - globalization of democracy. KW - legitimacy. KW - philosophical ideals. KW - political obstacles. KW - political strategy. KW - robust democracy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891657 AB - This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the 'democratic project' which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. But as agreement decreases regarding the definition of democracy, the less we are able to evaluate how it is working, or indeed whether it is working at all.The second issue is causal: what are the claims being ER -