Problems of Democracy: Probing the Boundaries

Front Cover......Page 1
Inside Cover......Page 2
Advisory Board......Page 3
ISBN......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction:  Nico Bechter & Gabriele De Angelis......Page 8
Section I: Assessing Democracy in the West......Page 12
Pluralism, Legitimacy and Radical Democracy......Page 14
The Hatred of Democracy Revisited: Rottiers......Page 22
Democracy as a Collection/Society of Porcupines......Page 30
Eliciting Students' Attitudes towards Democracy: Towards a More Inclusive Understanding of What a Democratic Way of Life Entails......Page 40
Section II:  Democracy - National, Transnational......Page 48
The Right to Democracy: O'Connell......Page 50
Democracy and the World Social Forum: Democratic Ideas in Transnational Social Movements......Page 66
Section III:  Radical Perspectives......Page 76
Immanent or Spectral Democracy? The Problem of Political Representation for Bruno Latour and Antonio Negri/Michael Hardt......Page 78
Revisiting the Public/Private Distinction: A Deleuzian Perspective......Page 90
The Problem with Equality: An Adornian Perspective on a Contested Idea in Democratic Theories......Page 100
Section IV:  National Case Studies......Page 110
Direct Democracy vs. Democracy by Representation in the MIddle East......Page 0
A Fight for Democracy Internal to Democracy Itself: The ANC and the Media in South Africa......Page 120
Democracy in Silence: Speaking, Silence and the Saturday Vigils in Turkey......Page 130
The Controversy of Muslim Education in an Austrian Democracy......Page 142
Section V: Reassessing Decision-Making and Participation......Page 154
Let the Dice Decide! A Qualified Argument for Sortitionist Democracy......Page 156
The Deliberative Case against the Secret Ballot and why It Fails......Page 166
Universal Choice or Democracy: Crumplin......Page 174
Democracy and Intimacy: Contrasting Views on a Controversial Connection......Page 182