Globality, Democracy and Civil Society

Name: Globality, Democracy and Civil Society
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Globality, Democracy and Civil SocietyAuthor(s): Terrell Carver, Jens Bartelson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138975262, 978-1138975262\nSynopsis\nGlobality, Democracy and Civil Society explores the relationship between the concepts of democracy and civil society through a comparison of their meaning and function in different historical and cultural contexts. \n\nThis volume presents detailed contextual studies in Europe, North America, Japan, Russia and Turkey. The contributors explore different ways of understanding and developing democratic practices and institutions. Rather than projecting the conditions of modern representative, state-centric democracy onto the global realm, they propose ways of rethinking these very conditions in terms of human diversity and difference. This is done by exploring conceptions of democracy that reconcile cultural plurality with democratic practices, and by using a number o.