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Nations and Democracy New Theoretical Perspectives

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Free Download Amanda Machin, "Nations and Democracy: New Theoretical Perspectives"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138066540 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.3 mb
A figure of enduring ingenuity, the nation has for centuries played a part on the socio-political stage. Whether centre stage or background scenery, it has featured in violent tragedies, revolutionary drama and nostalgic fable. Today, the nation is cast simultaneously in the roles of villain and hero. While it is renounced by those advocating trans-national, post-national and cosmopolitan forms of belonging, it has lately also been asserted as the solution to various social failures in liberal democracies. This appears to leave us with two alternatives: to jettison the nation in order to move towards a less parochial world, a world in which new forms of belonging underpin more inclusive politics. Or to celebrate the nation as way of ensuring the social cement that can unite a diverse society.
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The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy

July 4, 2025 by kenn in Ebooks - Leave a comment -
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Free Download The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy By M. B. B. Biskupski; James S. Pula; Piotr J. Wróbel
2010 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0821418912 | EPUB | 1 MB
The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic structure of Poland, and continues through changes that marked the postcommunist era of free Poland.The idea of democracy survived in Poland through long periods of foreign occupation, the trials of two world wars, and years of Communist subjugation. Whether in Poland itself or among exiles, Polish speculation about the creation of a liberal-democratic Poland has been central to modern Polish political thought. This volume is unique in that is traces the evolution of the idea of democracy, both during the periods when Poland was an independent country-1918-1939-and during the periods of foreign occupation before 1918 through World War II and the Communist era. For those periods when Poland was not free, the volume discusses how the idea of democracy evolved among exile and underground Polish circles.This important work is the only single-volume English-language history of modern Polish democratic thought and parliamentary systems and represents the latest scholarly research by leading specialists from Europe and North America.
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Deliberative Democracy and Ecological Transition

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Free Download Deliberative Democracy and Ecological Transition: The French Citizens’ Convention for Climate
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1836690061 | 480 Pages | EPUB (True) | 6 MB
Democracies are struggling to respond to the climate crisis. One promising approach to the ecological transition is based on innovations involving panels of citizens drawn at random. Many countries have experimented with this form of deliberative democracy at national and local levels. These citizens’ assemblies formulate public policy proposals.
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Democracy in Europe Legitimising Politics in a Non-State Polity

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Free Download Democracy in Europe : Legitimising Politics in a Non-State Polity By Heidrun Abromeit
1998 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1571819851 | PDF | 1 MB
Since the beginning of the European Community students of international politics and of international, resp. Constitutional law, have been wondering what kind of animal it is, and will be, once integration has been completed. Whereas the EC Treaty of 1957 stressed the economic aspects and envisioned a steady and dynamic progress towards a Single Market, it was conspicuously silent about the political implications of integration and the new democratic order. What is needed, so the author argues in this powerful and original contribution to the debate on democratisation of the European Union, is a flexible system that supplements the European decision-making process with various direct democratic instruments such as the use of referenda. These would serve to increase the accountability of the politicians without demanding or requiring a definitive resolution of the exact constitutional status of the Union.
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Africa in Search of Democracy (K. A. Busia on Africa)

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Free Download Africa in Search of Democracy (K. A. Busia on Africa) by K. A. Busia
English | May 8, 2023 | ISBN: 103219670X | 198 pages | PDF | 8.52 Mb
Originally published in 1967, reissued now with a new introduction, Africa in Search of Democracy in the author’s words was ‘a humble contribution to Africa’s search for political wisdom whereby to avoid destruction’. Written by the author during his time in voluntary exile, he was leader of the Parliamentary Opposition and of the United Party in Ghana which opposed the tyrannical rule of Nkrumah and his Convention People’s Party. In this book he proposed to examine the problems facing contemporary Africa within the context of the search for democracy; that is, for the establishment of societies which provide the best possible conditions for individual as well as social development within the widest measure of democratic freedom. The burning questions of nation building, of modernization, of raising standards of living, of achieving African unity, or harmonizing race relations and world peace, are discussed in relation to the quest for democracy.
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