Models of Democracy - Brossura

Held, David

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ISBN 10: 0745631479 ISBN 13: 9780745631479

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 2006

Riassunto

David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present, and a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today.
This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of significant transformations in world politics. A new chapter has been added on deliberative democracy which focuses not only on how citizen participation can be increased in politics, but also on how that participation can become more informed. The third edition will prove essential reading for all those interested in politics, political theory and political philosophy.

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Recensione:

"The great global struggles today are not over democracy versusother forms of government but over the meanings and practices ofdemocracy themselves. There is no better critical and engagedsurvey of the complex histories and contemporary struggles overthis deeply contested concept than David Held's third and improvededition of Models of Democracy, precisely because it iswritten in awareness of its own contestability."
James Tully, University of Victoria
 
"Models is the kind of established classic which bothdemands and merits revision every decade or so."
David Beetham, University of Leeds
 
"Everyone who has used Models will welcome this newedition. Newcomers will find a wide-ranging and reliable analysisof past and present debates about democracy and gain anunderstanding of what is at issue in current globalarguments."
Carole Pateman, Cardiff University and University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles

L'autore:

David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0745631479
• ISBN 13: 9780745631479
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 408
• Redattore: Schott Gareth