Adventures in democracy

the turbulent world of people power

Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from her childhood in post-war Japan, where democracy was imposed on a defeated country, to working in post-communist Poland, with its ...

Contemporary democratic theory

Is democracy worth saving? Responding to the erosion of democracy, philosophical debates have pivoted from analyzing the best forms of democracy to questioning what is so valuable about democracy to begin with, how we can save it, and whether it is indeed worth saving. Contemporary ...

Democracia radical

«La democracia existente, allí donde la hay, y en la medida en que la hay, está acercándose a un lugar en el que o avanza o desaparece, o se radicaliza, en alguno de los sentidos posibles de este término, o retrocede por la presión extraordinaria ...

Democracia y valores en Karl Mannheim

Una teoría social contra el liberalismo desarmado

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tras huir de la Alemania nazi y ser acogido en Inglaterra, el sociólogo húngaro Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) se lanza a responder una pregunta crucial: ¿Cómo reconstruir las democracias liberales en una Europa dividida por distintas visiones del mundo? Sus propuestas ...

Democracia y cuidado

Las personas se enfrentan a un déficit del cuidado: tenemos demasiado trabajo, hay demasiadas exigencias, no tenemos tiempo suficiente para poder cuidar adecuadamente a los niños, la gente mayor, y a nosotros mismos. Al mismo tiempo, la implicación en la política en muchos países del ...

Democracias y autocracias frente a la guerra en Ucrania

La obra que proponemos aquí busca informar a su audiencia -estudiantes, profesores, políticos, asesores e interesados en política internacional- sobre este nuevo enfrentamiento. El declive de la democracia coincide con el auge de países no democráticos que están ganando presencia internacional y cuestionando el orden ...

The civic bargain

how democracy survives

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it to Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being "tested" or is ...

The two faces of democracy

decentering agonism and deliberation

The democratic imagination is facing significant challenges. These challenges involve not only philosophical questions about the core values of democratic life, but also pressing practical issues related to how we should understand and confront current threats to democracy. Those who want to defend democracy against ...

Democracy in darkness

secrecy and transparency in the age of revolutions

How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that transparency was its very essence. In ...

Boicot a la mayoría

la representación democrática y el consenso integracionista

Genera suspicacia que el autogobierno del pueblo se exprese a través de una representación que aún responde a las mismas lógicas con las que nació en la oscuridad medieval, y que justificó a toda clase de regímenes terribles. Cuando finalmente estallaron las constituciones con la ...

Cómo los movimientos sociales pueden salvar la democracia

El malestar democrático generalizado ha puesto en tela de juicio la identificación del significado de la democracia con las instituciones actualmente existentes. Pero las épocas de crisis, así como plantean desafíos a las instituciones, también presentan oportunidades para una profundización de la democracia. Este libro ...

La democracia griega y sus intérpretes en la tradición occidental

El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos es el fruto de un coloquio interdisciplinar, celebrado en Sevilla en octubre de 2022, en el que participaron estudiosos de distintas disciplinas (Filosofía, Historia, Filología) y épocas (Antigüedad, Medievo, Modernidad e, incluso, mundo actual) y que ...

Todo por el pueblo y para el pueblo

Los orígenes de la democracia contemporánea en España (1808-1890)

La presente obra es un estudio empírico que pretende cimentar el análisis descriptivo y la interpretación de los inicios de la democracia en España durante el siglo XIX. Destaca por las facetas inéditas que despliega para el conocimiento de los idearios, personajes, grupos y prácticas ...

Our Own Worst Enemy

The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly ...

The problem of democracy

America, the Middle East, and the rise and fall of an idea

Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions. What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or ...

Silent coup

how corporations overthrew democracy

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup - namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power. Exposing the ...

Voice, choice, and action

the potential of young citizens to heal democracy

Voice, Choice, and Action is the fruit of the extraordinary personal and professional partnership between a psychiatrist and neurobiologist whose research and social activism have informed each other for the last thirty years. Inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Felton ...

The lost future

and how to reclaim it

The future seems increasingly uncertain. Our democracies are failing to prevent financial crises, energy shortages, climate change, and war—so how can we look to the future with confidence? Jan Zielonka argues that it is democracy’s shortsightedness that makes politics stumble in our increasingly ...

The crisis of democratic capitalism

We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being ...

Crack-up capitalism

market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy

Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: tax havens, free ports ...