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Economic sociology --- Political sociology --- Bureaucracy. --- Democracy. --- Socialism. --- Socialisme / et démocratie. --- Socialisme / en democratie.

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Socialism --- Social control --- Democracy --- Civil society --- Europe --- Politics and government --- 321.01 --- #SBIB:324H20 --- #SBIB:321H30 --- Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Hedendaagse politieke en sociale theorieën (vanaf de 19de eeuw): algemeen (incl. utilitarisme, burgerschap) --- 321.01 Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie --- Social conflict --- Sociology --- Liberty --- Pressure groups --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Social contract --- Socialism - Europe --- Europe - Politics and government - 1945 --- -Civil society

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John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling forms of socio-economic life. Keane's reflections are pitted against the widespread feeling that the world is both too complex and too violent to deserve serious reflection. His account borrows from various scholarly disciplines, including political science and international relations, to challenge the silence and confusion within much of contemporary literature on globalisation and global governance. Against fears of terrorism, rising tides of xenophobia, and loose talk of 'anti-globalisation', the defence of global civil society mounted here implies the need for new democratic ways of living.

#A0309PSA --- Community organization --- Civil society --- Globalization --- International relations --- Political aspects --- Civil society. --- International relations. --- Political aspects. --- 241 Hedendaagse wereldproblemen --- Globalisering --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Anti-globalization movement --- Social contract --- Mondialisation --- Société civile --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Globalization - Political aspects --- Relations internationales

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Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy. The book shows why the current literature on democracy is failing to make sense of many intellectual puzzles and new political trends. It probes a wide range of themes, from the growth of cross-border institutions and capitalist market failures to the greening of democracy, the dignity of children and the anti-democratic effects of everyday fear, violence and bigotry. Keane develops the idea of 'monitory democracy' to show why periodic free and fair elections are losing their democratic centrality; and why the ongoing struggles by citizens and their representatives, in a multiplicity of global settings, to humble the high and mighty and deal with the dangers of arbitrary power, force us to rethink what we mean by democracy and why it remains a universal ideal.

Democracy --- Political participation --- Information technology --- #SBIB:324H20 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Technological innovations --- Political aspects --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Democracy. --- Technological innovations. --- Political aspects. --- Elections. --- World politics

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We live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which many media innovations - from satellite broadcasting to smart glasses and electronic books - spawn great fascination mixed with excitement. In the field of politics, hopeful talk of digital democracy, cybercitizens and e-government has been flourishing. This book admits the many thrilling ways that communicative abundance is fundamentally altering the contours of our lives and of our politics, often for the better. But it asks whether too little attention has been paid to the troubling counter-trends, the decadent media developments that encourage public silence and concentrations of unlimited power, so weakening the spirit and substance of democracy. Exploring examples of clever government surveillance, market censorship, spin tactics and back-channel public relations, John Keane seeks to understand and explain these trends, and how best to deal with them. Tackling some tough but big and fateful questions, Keane argues that 'media decadence' is deeply harmful for public life.

Communication, International --- Mass media and globalization. --- Information technology --- Political participation --- Democracy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Globalization and mass media --- Globalization --- International communication --- World communication --- Communication --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Technological innovations.