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Focusing on the problems of resource management in Alaska's coastal
and offshore regions, this book examines the process of
policymaking in situations in which the interests, values, and
rights of the various actors conflict with one another and suggest
contradictory courses of action.
This book examines the process of policymaking in situations in
which the interests, values, and rights of the various actors
conflict with one another and suggest contradictory courses of
action. Focusing on the problems of resource management in Alaska's
coastal and offshore regions, Dr. Dryzek shows how present
mechanisms and analytical techniqu
Written by an internationally recognised expert in the field, The
Politics of the Earth provides an authoritative and engaging
introduction to environmental politics through a unique,
discourse-centred approach. With his lively and accessible writing
style, John S. Dryzek analyses how we construct and interpret the
environment through language, guiding the reader through the
discourses that dominate this arena, including ecological limits,
sustainability and green radicalism. The fourth edition has been
thoroughly updated to take in key developments in environmental
affairs, including an examination of the implications of the
Anthropocene concept and need for ecological reflexivity, with
updated coverage of the Paris Agreement on climate change and
Sustainable Development Goals, weaving in throughout a wealth of
contemporary examples to illuminate the discussion. It also
contains a ground-breaking new chapter on 'Gray Radicalism', in
which the author provides an innovative overview and analysis of
this contemporary radical anti-environmental discourse. Students
are further supported with added further reading sections and new
end-of-chapter discussion questions, which are designed to
encourage critical thinking and prompt a deeper engagement with the
issues at hand.
Global institutions are afflicted by severe democratic deficits,
while many of the major problems facing the world remain
intractable. Against this backdrop, we develop a deliberative
approach that puts effective, inclusive, and transformative
communication at the heart of global governance. Multilateral
negotiations, international organizations and regimes, governance
networks, and scientific assessments can be rendered more
deliberative and democratic. More thoroughgoing transformations
could involve citizens' assemblies, nested forums, transnational
mini-publics, crowdsourcing, and a global dissent channel. The
deliberative role of global civil society is vital. We show how
different institutional and civil society elements can be linked to
good effect in a global deliberative system. The capacity of
deliberative institutions to revise their own structures and
processes means that deliberative global governance is not just a
framework but also a reconstructive learning process. A
deliberative approach can advance democratic legitimacy and yield
progress on global problems such as climate change, violent
conflict and poverty.
Deliberative democracy now dominates the theory, reform, and study
of democracy. Working at its cutting edges, Foundations and
Frontiers of Deliberative Governance reaches from conceptual
underpinnings to the key challenges faced in applications to
ever-increasing ranges of problems and issues. Following a survey
of the life and times of deliberative democracy, the turns it has
taken, and the logic of deliberative systems, contentious
foundational issues receive attention. How can deliberative
legitimacy be achieved in large-scale societies where face-to-face
deliberation is implausible? What can and should representation
mean in such systems? What kinds of communication should be valued,
and why? How can competing appeals of pluralism and consensus in
democratic politics be reconciled? New concepts are developed along
the way: discursive legitimacy, discursive representation, systemic
tests for rhetoric in democratic communication, and several forms
of meta-consensus. Particular forums (be they legislative
assemblies or designed mini-publics) have an important place in
deliberative democracy, but more important are macro-level
deliberative systems that encompass the engagement of discourses in
the public sphere as well as formal and informal institutions of
governance. Deliberative democracy can be applied fruitfully in
areas previously off-limits to democratic theory: networked
governance, the democratization of authoritarian states, and global
democracy, as well as in new ways to invigorate citizen
participation. In these areas and more, deliberative democracy
out-performs its competitors.
The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible
treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need
to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene,
the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system
and its life-support capacities. However, the world remains stuck
with practices and modes of thinking that were developed in the
Holocene - the epoch of around 12,000 years of unusual stability in
the Earth system, toward the end of which modern institutions such
as states and capitalist markets arose. These institutions persist
despite their potentially catastrophic failure to respond to the
challenges of the Anthropocene, foremost among them a rapidly
changing climate and accelerating biodiversity loss. The
pathological trajectories of these institutions need to be
disrupted by advancing ecological reflexivity: the capacity of
structures, systems, and sets of ideas to question their own core
commitments, and if necessary change themselves, while listening
and responding effectively to signals from the Earth system. This
book envisages a world in which humans are no longer estranged from
the Earth system but engage with it in a more productive
relationship. We can still pursue democracy, social justice, and
sustainability - but not as before. In future, all politics should
be first and foremost a politics of the Anthropocene. The arguments
are developed in the context of issues such as climate change,
biodiversity, and global efforts to address sustainability.
The tensions between democracy and justice have long preoccupied
political theorists. Institutions that are procedurally democratic
do not necessarily make substantively just decisions. Democratizing
Global Justice shows that democracy and justice can be mutually
reinforcing in global governance - a domain where both are
conspicuously lacking - and indeed that global justice requires
global democratization. This novel reconceptualization of the
problematic relationship between global democracy and global
justice emphasises the role of inclusive deliberative processes.
These processes can empower the agents necessary to determine what
justice should mean and how it should be implemented in any given
context. Key agents include citizens and the global poor; and not
just the states but also international organizations and advocacy
groups active in global governance. The argument is informed by and
applied to the decision process leading to adoption of the
Sustainable Development Goals, and climate governance inasmuch as
it takes on questions of climate justice.
The tensions between democracy and justice have long preoccupied
political theorists. Institutions that are procedurally democratic
do not necessarily make substantively just decisions. Democratizing
Global Justice shows that democracy and justice can be mutually
reinforcing in global governance - a domain where both are
conspicuously lacking - and indeed that global justice requires
global democratization. This novel reconceptualization of the
problematic relationship between global democracy and global
justice emphasises the role of inclusive deliberative processes.
These processes can empower the agents necessary to determine what
justice should mean and how it should be implemented in any given
context. Key agents include citizens and the global poor; and not
just the states but also international organizations and advocacy
groups active in global governance. The argument is informed by and
applied to the decision process leading to adoption of the
Sustainable Development Goals, and climate governance inasmuch as
it takes on questions of climate justice.
Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable
set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity.
Given that climate governance is generated and experienced
internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet
current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley
Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action
depends crucially on questions of democratic legitimacy. Spanning
topics of multilateral diplomacy, networked governance,
representation, accountability, protest and participation, this
book charts the failures and successes of global climate governance
to offer fresh proposals for a deliberative system which would
enable meaningful communication, inclusion of all affected
interests, accountability and effectiveness in dealing with climate
change; one of the most vexing issues of our time.
This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking
introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that
climate change presents and how societies can respond. It
synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of
social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding
climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is
written "with attitude", for nobody has yet charted in coherent,
integrative, and effective fashion a way to move societies beyond
their current paralysis as they face the challenges of climate
change. The coverage begins with an examination of science, public
opinion, and policy making, with special attention to organized
climate change denial. The book then moves to economic analysis and
its limits; different kinds of policies; climate justice;
governance at all levels from the local to the global; and the
challenge of an emerging "Anthropocene" in which the mostly
unintended consequences of human action drive the earth system into
a more chaotic and unstable era. The conclusion considers the
prospects for fundamental transition in ideas, movements,
economics, and governance.
Debating the Earth brings together over 40 essential readings that
illustrate the diversity of political responses to environmental
issues. They are organized in a way that emphasizes the differences
and debates across the various schools of thought on environmental
affairs and there is a mixture of classic pieces and cutting-edge
essays. The key debates that are covered include the severity of
environmental problems, reformist responses to environmental
issues, the environment and economics and green critiques. The
second edition includes a new section on 'The Global South and
Indigenous Perspectives' which broadens the geographical scope. 25
extracts are new to this edition and there are more extracts by
women.
The study of the democratic transitions of former Communist states has been fertile ground for students of politics. This book provides a novel "ground up" perspective by examining the ways in which ordinary people have viewed and responded to democracy. Examining a number of countries at different stages of transition, they argue that democracy has been understood differently in different places and with varying levels of approval. The authors define their research within the context of each country's history and relate their analysis to future prospects for reform.
The guiding theme of this volume is that contemporary political
science owes much of its present character to its past. In 12
previously unpublished essays, the contributors (all practising
political scientists) explore the emergence and transformation of
political traditions and research programmes that have helped make
political science what it is today. Included are histories of
political themes and ideals (democracy, race, political education),
conceptual and philosophical frameworks (the state and pluralism,
behaviouralism, policy analysis, public opinion, biology and
politics), and theoretical projects and programmes (realism in
international relations, spatial theory of elections, rational
choice and historical approaches to institutional analysis). Each
essay provides special insight and a distinct approach to
particular episodes, moments, trends, and aspects of the history of
academic political science; the volume as a whole provides a
general overview of the history of the discipline and the variety
of ways disciplinary history can illuminate the present.
In the social disciplines there is a growing movement to use disciplinary history as a means of accounting for the present status and possible futures of various modes of social and political inquiry. In this collection of essays, a number of political scientists take up the challenge of disciplinary history by exploring a range of themes and movements that have shaped academic political science today. These essays should be of interest to any student of the social disciplines who is interested in understanding both the development of modern political science and its current concerns.
John Dryzek criticizes in this book the dominance of instrumental rationality and objectivism in political institutions, public policy and the practice of political science. He argues that the reliance on instrumental rationality has led to the excessive bureaucratization of government and to technocracies of expert cultures that are ill-equipped for dealing with complex social problems. Drawing on critical theory, he outlines an alternative program for the organization of political institutions, advocating a form of participatory democracy, which he terms discursive democracy, that stresses the importance of active citizenship and public discourse.
In this ground-breaking study, John Dryzek argues that democratic theory is now dominated by a deliberative approach. As one of those responsible for this turn, John Dryzek now takes issue with the direction it has taken. Discussing the models of democracy advocated by both friends and critics of the deliberative approach, Dryzek shows that democracy should be critical of established power, transitional in extending beyond national boundaries, and dynamic in its openness to changing constraints upon and opportunities for democratization.
Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable
set of problems that are unprecedented in their scope and severity.
Given that climate governance is generated and experienced
internationally, effective global governance is imperative; yet
current modes of governance have failed to deliver. Hayley
Stevenson and John Dryzek argue that effective collective action
depends crucially on questions of democratic legitimacy. Spanning
topics of multilateral diplomacy, networked governance,
representation, accountability, protest and participation, this
book charts the failures and successes of global climate governance
to offer fresh proposals for a deliberative system which would
enable meaningful communication, inclusion of all affected
interests, accountability and effectiveness in dealing with climate
change; one of the most vexing issues of our time.
Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever
confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis
drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change
affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should
respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues,
social and political reception of climate science, the denial of
that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of
the social disruptions caused by climate change, the economics of
those disruptions and possible responses to them, questions of
human security and social justice, obligations to future
generations, policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions, and governance at local, regional, national,
international, and global levels.
The study of the democratic transitions of former Communist states has been fertile ground for students of politics. This book provides a novel "ground up" perspective by examining the ways in which ordinary people have viewed and responded to democracy. Examining a number of countries at different stages of transition, they argue that democracy has been understood differently in different places and with varying levels of approval. The authors define their research within the context of each country's history and relate their analysis to future prospects for reform.
Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science,
political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different
directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits
alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds
of political values. Continental and post-modern influences jostle
with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist
concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways,
and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for
political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical
coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and
will help set the agenda for the field for years to come.
Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at
the state of the field, where it has been in the recent past, and
where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's
edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field,
and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological
changes.
The guiding theme of this volume is that contemporary political
science owes much of its present character to its past. In twelve
essays, the contributors - all practising political scientists -
explore the emergence and transformation of political traditions
and research programmes that have helped make political science
what it is today. Included are histories of political themes and
ideals (democracy, race, political education), conceptual and
philosophical frameworks (the state and pluralism, behaviouralism,
policy analysis, public opinion, biology and politics), and
theoretical projects and programmes (realism in international
relations, spatial theory of elections, rational choice and
historical approaches to institutional analysis). Each essay
provides special insight and a distinct approach to particular
episodes, moments, trends, and aspects of the history of academic
political science; the volume as a whole provides a general
overview of the history of the discipline and the variety of ways
disciplinary history can illuminate the present.
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