Democracy : problems and perspectives / Roland Axtmann
- Bib ID:
- 4083902
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Axtmann, Roland
- Description:
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007
- vi, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780748620098
- 0748620095
- 9780748620104
- 0748620109
- Full contents:
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- 1. Kant's republicanism and the cosmopolitan persuasion
- Kant's republicanism and the 'moral personality' of states
- The sovereign equality of states, peaceful coexistence and the international constitution
- Kant's cosmopolitanism
- Cicero's republicanism and Stoic cosmopolitanism : Kant in comparison
- John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas : alternative ways of understanding Kant's cosmopolitanism
- 2. The languages of human rights and the liberal dialect
- The many voices of the human rights discourse
- Human rights as the new standard of civilisation
- Human rights and democracy : liberal perspectives
- 3. The globalisation of democracy : the right to democratic governance
- The entitlement to democratic governance in international law and international politics
- The ideology of democracy promotion
- Excursus : prerequisites and causes of democratisation
- 4. Sovereignty and democracy
- Conceptual distinctions
- The politics of the sovereignty discourse
- 'Domestic sovereignty' as 'popular sovereignty'
- 5. Liberal democracy between multiculturalism and globalisation
- From 'demos' to 'demoi' : multiculturalism and democracy
- Globalisation and democracy.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Democracy
- Copyright:
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