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"John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? [...] Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy [...] It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy." -- Book jacket.
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Economic sociology --- Political sociology --- Bureaucracy. --- Democracy. --- Socialism. --- Socialisme / et démocratie. --- Socialisme / en democratie.
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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Political systems --- Civil society. --- Société civile --- Civil society --- Société civile --- History --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Burgerparticipatie. --- Politieke filosofie. --- Staatsburgerschap.
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Political systems --- Mass communications --- 316.774.16 --- 32.019.51 --- #SBIB:309H1015 --- #SBIB:324H30 --- #SBIB:031.GIFTCOM --- Massamedia: maatschappelijk, politiek, ideologisch, ethisch, juridisch, socio-cultureel--(communicatiesociologie) --- Massacommunicatie. Opinievorming. Politieke beinvloeding. Politieke manipulatie. Propaganda --- Media: politieke, juridische, ethische, ideologische aspecten (incl. privacy) --- Politieke cultuur --- 32.019.51 Massacommunicatie. Opinievorming. Politieke beinvloeding. Politieke manipulatie. Propaganda --- 316.774.16 Massamedia: maatschappelijk, politiek, ideologisch, ethisch, juridisch, socio-cultureel--(communicatiesociologie) --- Information, Théorie de l'
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In this provocative book, first published in 2004, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the common sense view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually sensitive to violence. He argues that we need to think more discriminatingly about the origins of violence, its consequences, its uses and remedies. He probes the disputed meanings of the term violence, and asks why violence is the greatest enemy of democracy, and why today's global 'triangle of violence' is tempting politicians to invoke undemocratic emergency powers. Throughout, Keane gives prominence to ethical questions, such as the circumstances in which violence can be justified, and argues that violent behaviour and means of violence can and should be 'democratised' - made publicly accountable to others, so encouraging efforts to erase surplus violence from the world.
Democracy --- Democratie --- Démocratie --- Geweld --- Inspraak in het beleid --- Overlegcultuur --- Self-government --- Violence --- 811 Filosofie --- Democracy. --- Violence. --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Social Sciences --- Political Science
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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.
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"A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world. One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them. Drawing on extensive travels, interviews, and a lifetime of thinking about democracy and its enemies, Keane shows how governments from Russia and China through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe have mastered a formidable combination of political tools that threaten the established ideals and practices of power-sharing democracy. These governments mobilize the rhetoric of democracy and win public support for workable forms of administration based on patronage, dark money, steady economic growth, sophisticated media controls, strangled judiciaries, dragnet surveillance, and selective violence against their opponents. Casting doubt on such fashionable terms as dictatorship, autocracy, fascism, and authoritarianism, Keane makes a case for retrieving and refurbishing the older "despotism" to make sense of how these regimes function and endure. He shows how they cooperate regionally and globally and draw strength from each other's resources while breeding worldwide anxiety and threatening the values and institutions of democracy. Like Montesquieu in the eighteenth century, Keane stresses the willing complicity of comfortable citizens in all these trends. And, like Montesquieu, he worries that the practices of despotism are closer to home than we care to admit"--
Authoritarianism --- Democracy --- Democratic centralism --- Political systems --- Authoritarianism. --- Democracy. --- Democratic centralism.
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