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Author : Ursula Van Beek
Release Date : 01 February 2012
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Genre : Political Science
Pages : 227
ISBN 13 : 1920338705

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Book Description: DEMOCRACY UNDER STRESS focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with serious crises? Do they work? Is China a new trend setter? Do values matter? Are global democratic rules a possibility? These are some of the key questions addressed in the volume.

Democracy Under Stress

Author : Ursula Van Beek,Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Genre : Political Science
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DEMOCRACY UNDER STRESS focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with ...

Constitutional Democracy Under Stress

Author : Peter L Biro
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Constitutional democracy is not just any old form of democracy. It has a peculiar logic and is premised upon some exacting criteria and principles including good laws and institutions predicated on specific fundamental core values and principles. But it is, when fully ingrained in the public sensibility, a sort of ...

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Publisher : University of Miami North South Center Press
Genre : Political Science
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The seriousness of the crisis became evident with two abortive military coups in 1992 and the suspension of Carlos Andres Perez's presidential term in 1994....

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Author : Ehud Sprinzak
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Genre : Political Science
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This work examines the crisis of Israeli politics in the 1990s, exploring the increasing ungovernability of the Jewish state, its obsolete electoral system and cynical coalition politics, its overburdened judiciary, its stagnant economy, and related issues. The authors - while highly critical - present a comprehensive effort to provide a ...

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Author : Gabriel Marcella,Orlando J. Pérez,Brian Fonseca
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Political Science
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to generate the necessary capacity to address important security and institutional challenges; this volume deepens our understanding of the nature and extent of state governance in Latin America. State capacity is multidimensional, with all elements interacting to produce stable governance and ...

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Author : Thomas Carothers,Andrew O'Donohue
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Genre : Political Science
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“A must-read for anyone concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies.”—Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die Why divisions have deepened and what can be done to heal them As one part of the global democratic recession, severe political polarization is increasingly afflicting old and new democracies alike, producing ...

Costs of Democracy

Author : Devesh Kapur,Milan Vaishnav
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : Political Science
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One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy is an exhaustive, ground-breaking study ...

System Under Stress Homeland Security and American Politics

Author : Donald F Kettl
Publisher : SAGE
Genre : Political Science
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In System under Stress, The Challenge to 21st Century Democracy, Third Edition, Donald F. Kettl looks at the latest stress to hit the system--the financial crisis of 2008. In his brief, gripping narrative, Kettl assesses how well the U.S. political system responds under extraordinary pressure--from 9/11, to Hurricane Katrina, to the ...

Democracy and Security in Latin America

Author : Gabriel Marcella,Orlando J. Pérez,Brian Fonseca
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Democracy
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to generate the necessary capacity to address important security and institutional challenges; this volume deepens our understanding of the nature and extent of state governance in Latin America. State capacity is multidimensional, with all elements interacting to produce stable governance and ...

Democracy Under Stress

Author : Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski,Ursula J Van Beek
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Genre : Uncategorized
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This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with serious ...

Twilight of Democracy

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Signal
Genre : Political Science
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A finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize One of Back Obama's Favourite Books of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism. From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal ...

Peruvian Democracy under Economic Stress

Author : Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski-Godard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Genre : Business & Economics
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As economic adviser and manager of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski observed at first hand the crisis that preceded the overthrow of the Belaúnde administration on October 3, 1968. His role in the economic policies of that era enables him to provide an insider's view and analysis of ...

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Publisher : JHU Press
Genre : Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Political Science
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Competences for democratic culture

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Genre : Political Science
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A new Council of Europe reference framework of competences for democratic culture! Contemporary societies within Europe face many challenges, including declining levels of voter turnout in elections, increased distrust of politicians, high levels of hate crime, intolerance and prejudice towards minority ethnic and religious groups, and increasing levels of support ...