New Democracies in Crisis? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Democracies in Crisis? write by Paul Blokker. This book was released on 2013-09-05. New Democracies in Crisis? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the complexities and drawbacks of modern constitutionalism by offering a comprehensive theoretical and comparative-empirical assessment of the status and role of constitutionalism in five new EU Member States. The democratization of countries in Central and Eastern Europe has been guarded by constitutions and constitutional courts. This book examines the implications of powerful courts and rigid constitutions for the democratic engagement of citizens and the political authority of politicians. Using an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the book analyses the historical emergence of powerful constitutional institutions in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The author argues that the democratic promise of 1989 largely lost out to a technocratic and top-down view of judicial control of politics – a state of affairs reinforced by EU accession. The current backlash in countries such as Hungary and Romania indicates that the realization of democratization to the extent initially expected might be ever more remote in some new democracies. New Democracies in Crisis? will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union politics, democratization studies, European constitutionalism, socio-legal studies, governance and comparative politics.
Crises of Democracy
Crises of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crises of Democracy write by Adam Przeworski. This book was released on 2019-09-26. Crises of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.
Democracy in Crisis
Democracy in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy in Crisis write by Robert Goodrich. This book was released on 2022-12-07. Democracy in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democracy in Crisis explores one of the world's greatest failures of democracy in Germany during the so-called Weimar Republic, 1919–33—a failure that led to the Third Reich. For more than a decade after World War I, liberalism, nationalism, conservatism, social democracy, Christian democracy, communism, fascism, and every variant of these movements struggled for power. Although Germany's constitutional framework boldly enshrined liberal democratic values, the political spectrum was so broad and fully represented that a stable parliamentary majority required constant negotiations. The compromises that were made subsequently alienated citizens, who were embittered by national humiliation in the war and the ensuing treaty and struggling to survive economic turmoil and rapidly changing cultural norms. As positions hardened, the door was opened to radical alternatives. In this game, students, as delegates of the Reichstag (parliament), must contend with intense parliamentary wrangling, uncontrollable world events, street fights, assassinations, and insurrections. The game begins in late 1929, just after the U.S. stock market crash, as the Reichstag deliberates the Young Plan (a revision to the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I). Students belonging to various political parties must debate these matters and more as the combination of economic stress, political gridlock, and foreign pressure turn Germany into a volcano on the verge of eruption.
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? write by Mark A. Graber. This book was released on 2018-08-23. Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy? There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various political events that have, for many scholars and observers, generated a feeling of deep foreboding about our collective futures all over the world. Do these events represent simply the normal ebb and flow of political possibilities, or do they instead portend a more permanent move away from constitutional democracy that had been thought triumphant after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1989? Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? addresses these questions head-on: Are the forces weakening constitutional democracy around the world general or nation-specific? Why have some major democracies seemingly not experienced these problems? How can we as scholars and citizens think clearly about the ideas of "constitutional crisis" or "constitutional degeneration"? What are the impacts of forces such as globalization, immigration, income inequality, populism, nationalism, religious sectarianism? Bringing together leading scholars to engage critically with the crises facing constitutional democracies in the 21st century, these essays diagnose the causes of the present afflictions in regimes, regions, and across the globe, believing at this stage that diagnosis is of central importance - as Abraham Lincoln said in his "House Divided" speech, "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
State Crisis in Fragile Democracies
State Crisis in Fragile Democracies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State Crisis in Fragile Democracies write by Samuel Handlin. This book was released on 2017-07-26. State Crisis in Fragile Democracies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops a new political-institutional explanation of South America's 'two lefts' and the divergent fates of the region's democratic regimes.
