Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
About the Book Series
Series Editors:
Paulina Tambakaki, University of Westminster, UK
Lasse Thomassen, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Lisa Disch, University of Michigan, USA
Advisory Board: Amy Allen (Penn State University), Rajeev Bhargava (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies), Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame), John Keane (University of Sydney), James R. Martel (San Francisco State University), Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster), Davide Panagia (UCLA), Bhikhu Parekh (House of Lords), and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
Democracy is being re-thought almost everywhere today: with the widespread questioning of the rationalist assumptions of classical liberalism, and the implications this has for representational competition; with the Arab Spring, destabilizing many assumptions about the geographic spread of democracy; with the deficits of democracy apparent in the Euro-zone crisis, especially as it affects the management of budget deficits; with democracy increasingly understand as a process of social empowerment and equalization, blurring the lines of division between formal and informal spheres; and with growing demands for democracy to be reformulated to include the needs of those currently marginalized or even to include the representation of non-human forms of life with whom we share our planet.
Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory publishes state of the art theoretical reflection on the problems and prospects of democratic theory when many of the traditional categories and concepts are being reworked and rethought in our globalized and complex times.
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Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire: From the Paris Commune to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Gaard Kets, Mathijs van de Sande
July 21, 2025
In the 72 days of its existence, the Paris Commune of 1871 was a political and social laboratory where Parisians would experiment with radically democratic urban self-government. Various radical theorists and traditions have claimed the Commune as their own: from the well-known account of Karl Marx...
Persuasion, Integration, and Deliberative Democracy: The Will of the Whole
1st Edition
By Graham Wright
October 31, 2024
It is easy to be in favor of a government that reflects the will of people you like. It is more difficult to be in favor of a government that reflects the will of people you hate. But this is precisely what democracy requires of us. And one of the most serious threats facing democracy today, in the...
Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism: Democratic Alter-Politics and Transformative Strategies
1st Edition
By Alexandros Kioupkiolis
August 26, 2024
Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism critically explores the global rise of an alternative democratic politics since the 1990s in both practice and theory, from the Zapatistas’ insurrection to the 2011 cycle of democratic contestation and the ensuing municipalist movement in Spain. ...
Agonistic Democracy: Rethinking Political Institutions in Pluralist Times
1st Edition
By Marie Paxton
December 13, 2021
Agonistic Democracy explores how theoretical concepts from agonistic democracy can inform institutional design in order to mediate conflict in multicultural, pluralist societies.Drawing on the work of Foucault, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Arendt, Marie Paxton outlines the importance of their themes of ...
Emotions, Protest, Democracy: Collective Identities in Contemporary Spain
1st Edition
By Emmy Eklundh
December 13, 2021
With the rise of both populist parties and social movements in Europe, the role of emotions in politics has once again become key to political debates, and particularly in the Spanish case. Since 2011, the Spanish political landscape has been redrawn. What started as the Indignados movement has now...
Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By James Muldoon
September 30, 2020
The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most ...
Living under Post-Democracy: Citizenship in Fleetingly Democratic Times
1st Edition
By Caleb R. Miller
March 16, 2020
When money equates to power and the system is rigged in favor of wealthy elites, why do we still pretend we are living in a democracy? In Living under Post-Democracy, Caleb R. Miller challenges us to admit what we already know: that most of us are effectively powerless over the political decisions ...
Political Theory and the Enlarged Mentality
1st Edition
By Stephen Acreman
July 16, 2019
In this book, Stephen Acreman follows the development and reception of a hitherto under-analyzed concept central to modern and postmodern political theory: the Kantian ein erweiterte Denkungsart, or enlarged mentality. While the enlarged mentality plays a major role in a number of key texts ...
Populism and Passions: Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo Cossarini, Fernando Vallespín
May 31, 2019
There is a consensus that right, and left-wing populism is on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic, from Donald Trump in the United States, to Spain’s leftist Podemos. These may utilize different kinds of populist mobilizations but the fact remains that elite and mass opinion is fuelling a ...
Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition
1st Edition
By Vasilis Grollios
August 14, 2018
The current political climate of uncompromising neoliberalism means that the need to study the logic of our culture—that is, the logic of the capitalist system—is compelling. Providing a rich philosophical analysis of democracy from a negative, non-identity, dialectical perspective, Vasilis ...
Democracy and Justice: Reading Derrida in Istanbul
1st Edition
By Agnes Czajka
July 27, 2018
This book explores the possibilities offered by Derrida’s work on democracy for interpreting contemporary struggles over democracy in Turkey. The relationship between democracy and justice seems of unquestionable importance to Derrida, with democracy and justice held in tension by deconstruction....
Constrained Elitism and Contemporary Democratic Theory
1st Edition
By Timothy Kersey
January 24, 2018
Today, examples of the public’s engagement with political issues through commercial and communicative mechanisms have become increasingly common. In February 2012, the Susan G. Komen Foundation reversed a decision to cease funding of cancer screening programs through Planned Parenthood amidst ...