Democracy

Roland Axtmann

ISBN 10: 0748620109 / ISBN 13: 9780748620104

Published by Edinburgh University Press, GB, 2007

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Democracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments about democratic practice. On the basis of an interpretation of Immanuel Kant's political philosophy, the book presents democracy as a regime type in which citizens, who are united to give law, rule themselves and where such self-rule is exercised by citizens who embrace local and global patriotism. In the course of developing this idea of democracy, the book addresses issues such as human rights and their relationship to democracy; the policy of the global promotion of human rights and democracy; sovereignty and the nation-state; popular sovereignty and multicultural citizenship; and cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy.The book will stimulate controversial discussions about the varieties of democratic imaginations and visions, past and present as well as the future of democracy in the current stage of globalisation.Key Features*Presents a broad range of thinkers, theoretical and political positions and arguments *Clearly links theory and practice *Uses case studies to elucidate the theories discussed*Covers a broad range of theories of democracy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Democracy
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748620109
• ISBN 13: 9780748620104
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 415 grams

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Synopsis

Democracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments about democratic practice. On the basis of an interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy, the book presents democracy as a regime type in which citizens, who are united to give law, rule themselves and where such self-rule is exercised by citizens who embrace local and global patriotism. In the course of developing this idea of democracy, the book addresses issues such as human rights and their relationship to democracy; the policy of the global promotion of human rights and democracy; sovereignty and the nation-state; popular sovereignty and multicultural citizenship; and cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy.The book will stimulate controversial discussions about the varieties of democratic imaginations and visions, past and present as well as the future of democracy in the current stage of globalisation.Key Features*Presents a broad range of thinkers, theoretical and political positions and arguments *Clearly links theory and practice *Uses case studies to elucidate the theories discussed*Covers a broad range of theories of democracy

About the Author

Roland Axtmann is Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Wales Swansea. Author of Balancing Democracy (Continuum, 2001) and Liberal Democracy into the 21st Century (Manchester University Press, 1996) and editor of Understanding Democratic Politics: An Introduction (Sage, 2003) and Globalization and Europe: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (Continuum, 1998).