A Global Political Economy of Democratisation: Beyond the Internal-External Divide

ISBN-13: 9780367888763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Alison J. Ayers

Opis

This book moves beyond the methodological nationalism of most comparative political analysis and creates an understanding of democracy linked to the global political economy by providing alternative narratives of struggles over democratization.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: Theoretical and Methodological Underpinnings 1. Beyond the State We’re In: The Mutual Constitution of the Domestic and International Domains PART II: Democratisation Revisited – The Liberal Project Redux 2. Ideology of Imperialism: Capitalism, Liberalism and Democracy 3. ‘We All Know A Democracy When We See One’: Promulgating the Orthodox Notion of Democracy 4. Imperial Liberties: The Global Constitution of (Neo)Liberal Democracy in Africa 5. Encountering the Orthodoxy: More on the Limits and Antinomies of (Neo)Liberal Democracy PART III: Expropriating the Expropriators – Reclaiming African Political History 6. Peoples Without Democracy? Precolonial Political Communities and Mindscapes 7. Enter the (Neo)Colony: Anti-Democracy and the (Neo)Colonial Condition Conclusion: Eight Theses Towards a Substantive Democracy

O autorze

Dr Alison Ayers is Research Associate in the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. She has held faculty positions at the University of Southampton and Simon Fraser University and was Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. Previous employment included research and programme work in Africa, Latin America and the UK, with community and indigenous organisations, NGOs, the United Nations and leading research institutes. She is editor of Gramsci, Political Economy and International Relations Theory: Modern Princes and Naked Emperors (2008/2013) and has published recent articles in Citizenship Studies, Critical Sociology, International Politics, New Political Economy, Policy and Society, Political Studies, Review of African Political Economy, Studies in Political Economy, and Third World Quarterly.