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"The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint. Far from it, democratization has been marked by setbacks and victories, a process often referred to as "contested democracy". In view of recent mobiliz...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Democratization studies ;
27 |
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| Summary: |
"The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint. Far from it, democratization has been marked by setbacks and victories, a process often referred to as "contested democracy". In view of recent mobilizations such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, in which new technologies have played a key role, there is a need for a renewed analysis of the long-term evolution of US and UK political systems. Using new areas of research, this book argues that the ideals and the practices of Anglo-American democracy c |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 301 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415748636 (hardback) : 0415748631 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | JK1726 |
| CLC: | D52 |
| Call Number: | D52/D383 |
| Contents: | 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 reform |