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Democracy, participation and contestation: civil society, governance and the future of liberal democracy/ editd by Emmanuelle Avril and Johann N. Neem

Contributor(s): Avril, Emmanuelle, ed | Neem, Johann N., edMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Democratization studies, 27Publication details: New York: Routledge, 2014Description: xviii, 301 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415748636Subject(s): Political participation | United States | Great Britain DDC classification: 320.941

Contents:

Part I Contested Definitions of Democracy Chapter 1 Rethinking 1828: The Emergence of Competing Democracies in the United States Reeve Huston Chapter 2: Some Ideological Aspects of the `Battle of Cable Street' Christos Efstathiou Chapter 3 Democracy inc. and Radical Criticism in the US Pierre Guerlain Chapter 4 Is Equality the Goal?: Challenging Economic Inequality in the US and UK Scot T. Fitzgerald Part II Who Participates? Political Inclusion and Exclusion Chapter 5 Democracy: America's Other "Peculiar Institution" Andrew W. Robertson Chapter 6 Undocumented Immigrants, From Pariahs to Citizens? Mobilizations and Arguments in Favor of Inclusion James Cohen Chapter 7 Productive Protest? The contested higher education reforms in England under the Coalition Government Sarah Pickard Chapter 8 A Tale of Polarizations: Stress, Inertia and Social Change in the New Gilded Age Jean-Baptiste Velut Part III Governance and the Management of Democratic Processes Chapter 9 Public Participation, Planning and Housing: a Changing Balance of Power? David Fee Chapter 10 The English Regions since 1994: Decentralization and the Contested Terrain of Territorial Governance Houari Mired Chapter 11 The European Citizens' Initiative: the Influence of Anglo-American Governance Ideology on Recent EU Institutional Reforms Coralie Raffenne Chapter 12 Channeling Indigenous Contestation of Uranium Mining in Australia: Legislation, Negotiation, Co-optation Sandrine Tolazzi Chapter 13 Partners not protesters? Managing Contests to Traditional Democracy through Expanded Public Input into Political Decision-making Jennifer Lees-Marshment Part IV A Changing Public Sphere. New Spaces and New Tools Chapter 14 Contested Boundaries of Representation: Patterns of Transformation in Black Petitioning in Massachusetts, 1770-1850 Daniel Carpenter and Nicole Topich Chapter 15: Social networks and Democracy: Fightbacks and Backlashes in the World Wide Agora Emmanuelle Avril Chapter 16 Local Democracy and Public Spaces in Contest: Graffiti in San Francisco Guillaume Marche Chapter 17 A Faux-Public Sphere: Liberty Mutual Markets an Online Conversation Economy for Citizen-Consumers Sheena Raja Chapter 18 Social Media and Political Activism: Breaking the Offline and Online Division Cristiana Olcese Concluding remarks: Does Democracy Have a Future? Gary Gerstle Index

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Part I Contested Definitions of Democracy

Chapter 1 Rethinking 1828: The Emergence of Competing Democracies in the United States Reeve Huston

Chapter 2: Some Ideological Aspects of the `Battle of Cable Street' Christos Efstathiou

Chapter 3 Democracy inc. and Radical Criticism in the US Pierre Guerlain

Chapter 4 Is Equality the Goal?: Challenging Economic Inequality in the US and UK Scot T. Fitzgerald

Part II Who Participates? Political Inclusion and Exclusion

Chapter 5 Democracy: America's Other "Peculiar Institution" Andrew W. Robertson

Chapter 6 Undocumented Immigrants, From Pariahs to Citizens? Mobilizations and Arguments in Favor of Inclusion James Cohen

Chapter 7 Productive Protest? The contested higher education reforms in England under the Coalition Government Sarah Pickard

Chapter 8 A Tale of Polarizations: Stress, Inertia and Social Change in the New Gilded Age Jean-Baptiste Velut

Part III Governance and the Management of Democratic Processes

Chapter 9 Public Participation, Planning and Housing: a Changing Balance of Power? David Fee

Chapter 10 The English Regions since 1994: Decentralization and the Contested Terrain of Territorial Governance Houari Mired

Chapter 11 The European Citizens' Initiative: the Influence of Anglo-American Governance Ideology on Recent EU Institutional Reforms Coralie Raffenne

Chapter 12 Channeling Indigenous Contestation of Uranium Mining in Australia: Legislation, Negotiation, Co-optation Sandrine Tolazzi

Chapter 13 Partners not protesters? Managing Contests to Traditional Democracy through Expanded Public Input into Political Decision-making Jennifer Lees-Marshment

Part IV A Changing Public Sphere. New Spaces and New Tools

Chapter 14 Contested Boundaries of Representation: Patterns of Transformation in Black Petitioning in Massachusetts, 1770-1850 Daniel Carpenter and Nicole Topich

Chapter 15: Social networks and Democracy: Fightbacks and Backlashes in the World Wide Agora Emmanuelle Avril

Chapter 16 Local Democracy and Public Spaces in Contest: Graffiti in San Francisco Guillaume Marche

Chapter 17 A Faux-Public Sphere: Liberty Mutual Markets an Online Conversation Economy for Citizen-Consumers Sheena Raja

Chapter 18 Social Media and Political Activism: Breaking the Offline and Online Division Cristiana Olcese Concluding remarks: Does Democracy Have a Future? Gary Gerstle Index

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