Introduction : crisis and democracy in the twenty-first century / Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter -- Decentreing governance : a democratic turn? / Mark Bevir -- The democratic accountability of collaborative innovation in the public sector / Jacob Torfing -- The financial crisis as a crisis of public reasoning / Matthias Goldmann -- Neo-liberal governance and the protest politics of the occupy movement / Daniel Bray -- Governance and democratic legitimacy : the European Union's crisis of de-politicisation / Natalie J. Doyle -- Disintegrating European austerity in Greece and Germany / Roderic Pitty -- Democratising governance after the Arab revolutions : the people, the Muslim Brotherhood and the governance networks of Egypt / Benjamin Isakhan -- Wikileaks and the limits of representative democracy and transnational democratisation / Steven Slaughter -- Global governance, constitutionalism and democracy / Roland Axtmann -- Global unionism and global governance / Andrew Vandenberg -- Climate crises and the limits of liberal democracy? : Germany, Australia and India compared / James Goodman and Tom Morton -- Conclusion :the future of democratic governance / Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter
Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like Global Financial Crisis, the Arab Revolutions and Wikileaks this volume highlights tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis and examines the prospects of democratising governance in the 21st Century.
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