Democracy, participation and contestation : civil society, governance and the future of liberal democracy /: civil society, governance and the future of liberal democracy. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Emmanuelle Avril and Johann N. Neem.
• Authors: Avril, Emmanuelle; Neem, Johann N
• Other Names: Avril, Emmanuelle editor of compilation.; Neem, Johann N editor of compilation.
• Contents: Introduction : "contested democracy" : a critical evaluation / Emmanuelle Avril & Johann Neem -- Rethinking 1828 : the emergence of competing democracies in the United States / Reeve Huston -- Some ideological aspects of the "Battle of Cable Street" / Christos Efstathiou -- Democracy inc. and radical criticism in the US / Pierre Guerlain -- Is equality the goal? : challenging economic inequality in the US and UK / Scot T. Fitzgerald -- Democracy : America's other "peculiar institution" / Andrew W. Robertson -- Undocumented immigrants, from pariahs to citizens? : mobilizations and arguments in favor of inclusion / James Cohen -- Productive protest? : the contested higher education reforms in England under the coalition government / Sarah Pickard -- A tale of polarizations : stress, inertia and social change in the new gilded age / Jean-Baptiste Velut -- Public participation, planning and housing : a changing balance of power? / David Fée -- The English regions since 1994 : decentralization and the contested terrain of territorial governance / Houari Mired -- The European citizens' initiative : the influence of Anglo-American governance ideology on recent EU institutional reforms / Coralie Raffenne -- Channeling indigenous contestation of uranium mining in Australia : legislation, negotiation, co-optation / Sandrine Tolazzi -- Partners not protesters? : managing contests to traditional democracy through expanded public input into political decision-making / Jennifer Lees-Marshment -- Contested boundaries of representation : patterns of transformation in black petitioning in Massachusetts, 1770-1850 / Daniel Carpenter and Nicole Topich -- Social networks and democracy : fightbacks and backlashes in the world wide agora / Emmanuelle Avril -- Local democracy and public spaces in contest : graffiti in San Francisco / Guillaume Marche -- A faux-public sphere : liberty mutual markets an online conversation economy for citizen-consumers / Sheena Raja -- Social media and political activism : breaking the offline and online division / Cristiana Olcese -- Concluding remarks : does democracy have a future? / Gary Gerstle.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (302 pages), (15 illustrations)
• Subjects: 320.941; Democracy -- United States; Democracy -- Great Britain; Political participation -- United States; Political participation -- Great Britain; Civil society -- United States; Civil society -- Great Britain; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317750765; 1317750764
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.