Hard Questions for Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780415523059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 194 str.

Raj Chari

Opis

The financial and economic crisis has forced governments and people from around the globe to ask some hard questions about how democracy has evolved. This text asks and answers these questions and calls for democratic change throughout the world.

Spis treści

1. Introduction - Introducing Hard Questions for Democracy  Section I – Democracy and Legitimacy  2. Democracy and Moral Autonomy 3. The Values of Democratic Proceduralism Section II – Democracy and The Markets  4. Financial and Economic Crisis: Theoretical Explanations of the Global Sunset 5. Financial and Economic Crisis: Explaining the Sunset Over the Celtic Tiger Section III – Democracy, Political Parties and Voters  6. Why Vote-Seeking Parties May Make Voters Miserable 7. What Gives Politics Such a Bad Name 8. Can Compactness Constrain the Gerrymander 9. Electing Women to the Dáil: Gender Cues and the Irish Voter 10. Parties and Referendums in Ireland, 1937-2011 Section IV – Democracy and Participation  11. Should Irish Emigrants Have Votes? External Voting in Ireland 12. Can the Internet Reinvent Democracy?  Section V – Democracy, Violence and Conflict  13. Are the Citizens of a Democracy a Just Target for Terrorists? 14. Bombings to Ballots: The Evolution of the Irish Republican Movement’s Conceptualization of Democracy

O autorze

Raj Chari is Associate Professor in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin.