Challenges to Democracy: Ideas, Involvement and Institutions

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
The Postmodern Imagination....Pages 1-13
Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture....Pages 14-28
The Need for a ‘Deglobalization’ of ‘Globalization’....Pages 29-39
Ecological Citizenship: a Disruptive Influence?....Pages 40-62
Pluralism, Democratic Deliberation and Environmental Values....Pages 63-77
Factions and Diversity: a Republican Dilemma....Pages 78-91
Rediscovering the Little Platoons: Civil Society and Contemporary American Conservative Thought....Pages 92-104
Idealism and Hedonism....Pages 105-118
Pluralism and Liberalism in the Political Thought of Isaiah Berlin....Pages 119-131
The Impact of Environmentalism on Public Policy Analysis....Pages 132-144
The Changing Strategies of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in the UK in the 1990s....Pages 145-159
The Marginalization of Europe: Testing New Labour’s European Credentials....Pages 160-171
The ‘Penny Farthing’ Machine Revisited: Labour Party Members and Participation in the 1950s and 1960s....Pages 172-185
Social-Democratic Consolidation in Brazil: the Cardoso Presidency 1994–98 — Perspectives and Prospects....Pages 186-201
Executive-Legislative Relations and Democratic Consolidation in Mexico....Pages 202-214
The Republicanization of Russia: Federalism and Democratization in Transition I....Pages 215-226
The Republicanization of Russia: Federalism and Democratization in Transition II....Pages 227-240
Parasite Politics: On the Significance of Symbiosis and Assemblage in Theorizing Community Formations....Pages 241-253
Redesigning Newton’s Cenotaph: Quantum Spacetime and the State — the Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture....Pages 254-271
Back Matter....Pages 273-284