John S. Dryzek

The past few years have seen a remarkable ferment in the theory of democracy. Deliberative Democracy and Beyond is a critical tour through recent democratic theory by one of the leading political theorist in the field. It examines the deliberative turn in democratic theory, which argued that the essence of democratic legitimacy is to be found in authentic deliberations on the part of those affected by a collective decision. The deliberative turn began as a challenge to established institutions and models of democracy, but it has now been largely assimilated by these same institutions and models. Drawing a distinction between liberal constitutionalist deliberative democracy and discursive democracy, the author criticizes the former and advocates the latter. He argues that a defensible theory of democracy should be critical of established power, pluralistic, reflexive in its questioning orientation to established traditions, transnational in its capacity to extend across state boundaries, ecological, and dynamic in its openness to ever-changing constraints upon and opportunities for democratization. Dryzek's reinvigorated approach enables deliberative democracy to respond more effectively to the criticisms that have been leveled against it. Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in applied political theory. The series will contain works of outstanding quality with no restrictions as to approach subject matter.Series Editors: Will Kymlicka, David Miller, and Alan Ryan

Liberals, Critics, Contestations

Deliberative Democracy and Beyond

James Farr

Stephen T. Leonard

El hilo conductor de este volumen vincula gran parte del carácter de la ciencia política contemporánea a su pasado. En los doce ensayos, los autores –todos ellos politólogos profesionales– exploran la aparición y transformación de tradiciones políticas y de programas de investigación que han ayudado a hacer de la ciencia política lo que es hoy en día. En esta línea, se incluyen historias de temas e ideales políticos, democracia, raza, educación política), marcos conceptuales y filosóficos (Estado y el pluralismo, conductismo, análisis de políticas públicas, opinión pública y biología y política) así como proyectos y programas teóricos (el realismo en las relaciones internacionales, la teoría espacial de las elecciones, la elección racional y los enfoques históricos en el análisis institucional). Cada uno de los ensayos aporta una visión especial y un enfoque distintivo a episodios, momentos, tendencias y aspectos singulares de la historia de la ciencia política académica. El volumen, en conjunto, ofrece un panorama general de la historia de la disciplina y de los diversos modos en que la historia disciplinar puede iluminar el presente.

programas de investigación y tradiciones políticas

La ciencia política en la historia

David Schlosberg

Richard B. Norgaard

A short accessible introductory treatment of how climate change affects society, and how social, economic, and political systems can, do, and should respond.

Climate-Challenged Society

Jonathan Pickering

This is a book about how politics, government - and much else - needs to change in response to the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene. The Holocene is the last 12,000 years of unusual stability in the Earth system. The Anthropocene is the emerging epoch of human-caused instability in the system and its life-support capacities. Dominant institutions such as states, markets, and international organizations that developed in the late Holocene are nolonger fit for purpose, and need to develop a capacity to transform themselves in response to a changing Earth system. The analysis is developed in the context of issues such as climate change,biodiversity, and global efforts to address sustainability.

The Politics of the Anthropocene

Hayley Stevenson

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.

Democratizing Global Climate Governance

In this volume, scholars take up the challenge of disciplinary history by exploring the themes and movements that have shaped political science today.

Research Programs and Political Traditions

Political Science in History

Davis B. Bobrow

Policy Analysis by Design examines the approaches to public policy taken by those who try to teach it, write about it, and influence it through major analysis.& Bobrow and Dryzek systematically compare the five major contending analytical frames of reference: welfare economics, public choice, social structure, information processing, and political philosophy.& The workings of each frame are illustrated by means of a common, if imaginary, policy case - air pollution in the hypothetical Smoke Valley.

Policy Analysis by Design

Leslie Holmes

Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance John S Dryzek

This book examines the way democracy is thought about and lived by people in the post-communist world.

Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries

Post-Communist Democratization

Anne Phillips

Bonnie Honig

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

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.

John Dryzek provides an accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. He analyses the main discourses from the last 30 years and those likely to be influential in future.

Environmental Discourses

The Politics of the Earth

A systematic examination by the best writers in a variety of fields working on issues of how climate change affects society, and how social, economic, and political systems can, do, and should respond.

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

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.

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