TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fierlbeck,Katherine
TI  - Globalizing Democracy: Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas
T2  - Perspectives on Democratic Practice
SN  - 9781847794314
AV  - JC423 .F439 2008 
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - World politics
KW  - 1989-
KW  - Politique mondiale
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - fast
KW  - Political Science
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Law, Politics & Government
KW  - Political Theory of the State
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Part 1 Contextualizing the debate over democracy; I Interpreting democracy: philosophicaldebates; 2 The ambiguity of democracy; 3 Expanding democracy; 4 Can there be nonliberal democracy?; Part 2 Explaining democracy: causal debates; 5 The market; 6 Civil society; Part 3 Pursuing democracy: political debates; 7 Power, legitimacy, and the interpretation ofdemocracy; 8 Deromanticizing democracy; Bibliography; Index
N2  - This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the?democratic project? which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. But as agreement decreases regarding the definition of democracy, the less we are able to evaluate how it is working, or indeed whether it is working at all. The second issue is causal: what are the claims being
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