دانلود کتاب Democracy, Participation and Contestation: Civil society, governance and the future of liberal democracy

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Contested democracy”: A critical evaluation
Part I Contested definitions of democracy
1 Rethinking 1828: The emergence of competing democracies in the United States
2 Some ideological aspects of the “battle of Cable Street”
3 Democracy inc. and radical criticism in the US
4 Is equality the goal? Challenging economic inequality in the US and UK
Part II Who participates? Political inclusion and exclusion
5 Democracy: America’s other “peculiar institution”
6 Undocumented immigrants, from pariahs to citizens? Mobilizations and arguments in favour of inclusion
7 Productive protest? The contested higher education reforms in England under the Coalition Government
8 A tale of polarizations: Stress, inertia and social change in the New Gilded Age
Part III Governance and the management of democratic processes
9 Public participation, planning and housing: A changing balance of power?
10 The English regions since 1994: Decentralization and the contested terrain of territorial governance
11 The European Citizens’ Initiative: The influence of Anglo-American governance ideology on recent EU institutional reforms
12 Channeling Indigenous contestation of uranium mining in Australia: Legislation, negotiation, co-optation
13 Partners not protesters? Managing contests to traditional democracy through expanded public input into political decision-making
Part IV A changing public sphere: New spaces and new tools
14 Contested boundaries of representation: Patterns of transformation in black petitioning in Massachusetts, 1770–1850
15 Social networks and democracy: Fightbacks and backlashes in the world wide agora
16 Local democracy and public spaces in contest: Graffiti in San Francisco
17 A faux-public sphere: Liberty Mutual markets an online conversation economy for citizen-consumers
18 Social media and political activism: Breaking the offline and online division
Concluding remarks: Does democracy have a future?
Index