
Democracy
Philosophy of Language
Michael Saward(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 21. March 2003
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-7456-2349-8 (ISBN)
Description
This new textbook invites readers to explore their own responses to debates about democracy's meaning. It provides tools for thinking actively about democracy as a practice, an ideal, and a site of contestation.
Open-minded and written with genuine clarity for an undergraduate audience, Saward's book avoids providing easy answers to democracy's dilemmas. Instead, it offers to students the diverse approaches to democracy, showing how the key narratives of contemporary political life have been created and adapted.
Working through a series of compelling real and hypothetical cases, twentieth-century narratives of democracy and their roots, and major new challenges such as globalization and environmentalism, the book makes the ideal starting point both for students already curious and those needing to be enticed and provoked. It concludes with an extraordinary snapshot and appraisal of the new theories of democracy that are making waves in the twenty-first century, and invites informed speculation on the shape of the democracy of the future. Democracy includes an extensive glossary of types of democracy, as well as a guide to further reading.
Open-minded and written with genuine clarity for an undergraduate audience, Saward's book avoids providing easy answers to democracy's dilemmas. Instead, it offers to students the diverse approaches to democracy, showing how the key narratives of contemporary political life have been created and adapted.
Working through a series of compelling real and hypothetical cases, twentieth-century narratives of democracy and their roots, and major new challenges such as globalization and environmentalism, the book makes the ideal starting point both for students already curious and those needing to be enticed and provoked. It concludes with an extraordinary snapshot and appraisal of the new theories of democracy that are making waves in the twenty-first century, and invites informed speculation on the shape of the democracy of the future. Democracy includes an extensive glossary of types of democracy, as well as a guide to further reading.
Reviews / Votes
"Saward's short book is a refreshing account of the broad concerns of democracy which manages to be critical without being pessimistic. It will stimulate students into asking questions rather than trying to provide answers. It provides a general background reading for anyone interested in democratic theory, presenting different routes for students to pursue further study." Keith Dowding, London School of Economics and Political ScienceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
345 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-2349-8 (9780745623498)
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Michael Saward
Democracy
Book
03/2003
1st Edition
Polity Press
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Michael Saward is Professor of Politics at the Open University.
Content
Introduction. 1. Is this Democracy?.
2. Narrating Democracy I.
3. Narrating Democracy II.
4. Five Challenges.
5. Reinventing Democracy.
Conclusion.
Glossary: Concepts of Democracy.
A Guide to Further Reading.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
2. Narrating Democracy I.
3. Narrating Democracy II.
4. Five Challenges.
5. Reinventing Democracy.
Conclusion.
Glossary: Concepts of Democracy.
A Guide to Further Reading.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index