Spaces of democracy [electronic resource] : geographical perspectives on citizenship, participation and representation / edited by Clive Barnett and Murray Low.

Publication:

London : SAGE, 2004.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (264 p.)

Subjects:

Political participation.
Democracy.
Citizenship.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

In an historically unprecedented way, democracy is now increasingly seen as a universal model of legitimate rule. This work addresses the key question: How can democracy be understood in theory and in practice?

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Geography and Democracy: An Introduction; Chapter 2 - Global Democratization: Measuring and Explaining the Diffusion of Democracy; Chapter 3 - Electoral Geography in Electoral Studies: Putting Voters in Their Place; Chapter 4 - Representation, Law and Redistricting in the United States; Chapter 5 - Citizens and the State: Citizenship Formations in Space and Time; Chapter 6 - Open Borders and Free Population Movement: A Challenge for Liberalism; Chapter 7 - Cities as Spaces of Democracy: Complexity, Scale and Governance
Chapter 8 - Spaces of Public and Private: Locating PoliticsChapter 9 - The Geopolitics of Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America; Chapter 10 - Media, Democracy and Representation: Disembodying the Public; Chapter 11 - Cultures of Democracy: Spaces of Democratic Possibility; Chapter 12 - Spaces of Mobilization: Transnational Social Movements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

Barnett, Clive.
Low, Murray.

ISBN:

1-4462-1630-6
1-4462-2331-0
1-280-36897-7
9786610368976
1-4129-3139-8

OCLC:

70774082