Globalization and Democracy
Stephen J. Rosow
Language: English
Pages: 219
ISBN: B00M3VXEZC
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Combining theory with compelling case studies, this book examines the globalizing world of democracy. Noted critical scholars Stephen J. Rosow and Jim George argue that democracy must be understood not as a unified concept but as a diversity of political responses to specific conditions and political struggles. Doing so reveals how democracy is taking multiple forms around the world in response to neoliberal globalism and the increasing pace and complexity of everyday life. The authors show how the current phase of globalization is destabilizing the dominance of Western democracy promotion as resisters challenge common understandings and forms of democracy. Explaining the theory behind neoliberal globalization and democracy promotion, they consider its impact and struggles against it in South Africa, post-Soviet Russia, India, and Venezuela and other “pink tide” states in Latin America. Rosow and George also examine how digital communications networks, the centralization of security, and the fluid movements of people and ideas are destabilizing traditional democratic theories. At the same time, they give rise to concepts of democracy that focus on new forms of citizenship and democratic participation, a cosmopolitan democratic constitutionalism, cross-boundary political activism, and local and community-based economic and democratic practices.
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Aspirational bourgeoisie, who from the seventeenth century on sought freedom from traditional constraints in civil society and upon the free market but who remained wary of more radical challenges to the status quo. Thus, in any era, capitalist markets, an entrepreneurial middle class, and educated, conservative elites are the crucial components of an ordered, stable capitalist democracy, one characterized by civic and political freedoms, periodic elections, and constitutional government. Beyond.
To blame for this. But on this issue, too, the record in the neoliberal era is unimpressive. The Economist goes further, charging that “education is a disgrace” under the GEAR strategy, with South Africa ranking 132nd out of 144 countries for its primary education, and 143rd in science and mathematics.22 It is estimated that only 15 percent of children can read and write at the minimally prescribed levels by the age of twelve, with no improvement in sight.23 The GEAR targets concerning the.
Devoted followers of Western neoliberalism and the U.S.-led Washington Consensus. Indeed, the Russian press designated them the new “Chicago Boys,” observing that “for the first time Russia will get in its government a team of liberals who consider themselves followers of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.” Their influence was underlined in Yeltsin’s choice of Yegor Gaidar as his deputy and Anatoly Chubais as minister for privatization.93 Yeltsin also reached out to the G7 and the IMF for.
Creating their own conditions, their own social world. Appadurai makes clear the functioning of the Alliance as a form of subjectivation, that democratic subjects are created. It aims to create new people, a new ethos and moral life of its members that makes them agents in the creation of their own world: As with all serious movements concerned with consciousness-changing and self-mobilization, there is a conscious effort to inculcate protocols of speech, style, and organizational form within.
Kerala.” 85. Jaidev Kumar, “Jobless No More?” Hindu Business Line, October 8, 2007. 86. Gupta, “Kerala Budget 2012.” 87. Government of Kerala, “Kerala Budget 2012–13,” March 19, 2012, speech by K. M. Mani, Minister for Finance, http://www.finance.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=495:kerala-budget-2012-13&catid=18:state-budget&Itemid=32. 88. Gupta, “Kerala Budget 2012.” 89. Bill McKibben, “The Enigma of Kerala.” 90. Amartya Sen, cited in Dilasha Seth, “There’s a Lot.