Title Democracy and Crisis

Published Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century -- Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter PART I: RECONSIDERING GOVERNANCE 1. Decentreing Governance: A Democratic Turn? -- Mark Bevir 2. The Democratic Accountability of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector -- Jacob Torfing PART II: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND DEMOCRACY 3. The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Public Reasoning -- Matthias Goldmann 4. Neo-Liberal Governance and the Protest Politics of the Occupy Movement -- Daniel Bray 5. Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: The European Union's Crisis of De-Politicisation -- Natalie J. Doyle 6. Disintegrating European Austerity in Greece and Germany -- Roderic Pitty PART III: TRANSITIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ATTEMPTS TO DE3MOCRATISE GOVERNANCE 7. Democratising Governance after the Arab Revolutions: The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance Networks of Egypt -- Benjamin Isakhan 8. WikiLeaks and the Limits of Representative Democracy and Transnational Democratisation -- Steven Slaughter PART IV: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRATIC CRISES 9. Global Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy -- Roland Axtmann 10. Global Unionism and Global Governance -- Andrew Vandenberg 11. Climate Crises and the Limits of Liberal Democracy? Germany, Australia and India Compared -- James Goodman and Tom Morton Conclusion: The Future of Democratic Governance -- Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter Summary Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like Global Financial Crisis, the Arab Revolutions and Wikileaks this volume highlights tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis and examines the prospects of democratising governance in the 21st Century. Recent years have seen near constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. The critical nexus between the ever-increasing array of crises that modern representative democracies face and the widening reliance on an array of undemocratic governance mechanisms and networks to meet and manage these crises needs urgent and in-depth scholarly attention. This book therefore seeks to investigate the ways in which representative democracy might better handle environmental, political, social and economic crises in the twenty-first century by making the mechanisms of governance more democratic. By examining cases such as the global financial crisis, the arab revolutions, Wikileaks and climate change, this volume highlights the tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis and examines the prospects of democratising governance in the twenty-first century and beyond Viewing crises as opportunities to democratize governance, this volume offers a refreshing contribution to the debates on governance and democracy, theoretically as well as empirically. Rather than attempting a substantial definition of governance, the contributors are joined by the more pragmatic approach of decentering governance and of situating governance contextually. By doing so, the edition offers a new take through analyses of contemporary phenomena such as the global financial crisis, the Occupy and Wikileaks movements, the Arab revolutions, or global environmental governance. Well organized and well written, this book will be useful to newcomers as well as seasoned scholars in the field. Anne Mette Kjaer, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark 'This volume assembles an impressive range of scholars to address the problems of democratic governance emerging in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Significantly, they show that the GFC and other contemporary crises highlight problems inherent to the complex relationship of democracy and governance and which therefore resist simple solutions.' Adrian Little, Professor of Political Theory, University of Melbourne, Australia Notes Print version record Subject Democracy -- History -- 21st century Globalization -- Economic aspects International relations -- History -- 21st century globalism. Political structures: democracy. Demonstrations & protest movements. Democracy Globalization -- Economic aspects International relations Political structures: democracy -- United States of America, USA. Pressure groups & protest movements -- United States of America, USA. Political science & theory -- United States of America, USA. Public administration -- United States of America, USA. Central -- national -- federal government -- United States of America, USA. Politics and Government. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1137326034 9781137326034 1137326042 9781137326041 9781322169675 1322169675

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