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ديموقراطيات في خطر !
رؤساء ورؤساء وزراء سابقون للدول الحديثة العهد في الديموقراطية، على طاولة واحدة مع نخبة من أهم الأكاديميين والعلماء المتخصصين في تحقيق الديموقراطية في العالم، تلاقوا في الجمعية العمومية الثالثة لنادي مدريد، لتقرير مصير هذه الديموقراطيات الحديثة في كل من أميركا اللاتينية (مثل البرازيل وتشيلي) وأفريقيا (مثل نيجيريا وغانا) وآسيا (مثل العراق وأندونيسيا وباكستان) وأوروبا (إسبانيا وبولندا على سبيل المثال) وبحث سبل انتشالها من الغرق في وحول الأزمات التي تتسرب إليها : من نزاعات دينية وإثنية، إلى دور الأجهزة الأمنية من جيش وشرطة واستخبارات وكيفية تقاسم السلطة في نظامين أساسيين : نظام رئاسي وآخر نصف رئاسي وقد أسفر الاجتماع عن رؤية شاملة وسلة متكاملة من التحليلات والحلول لما يدور على الساحة الساخنة في العالم وهذا ما ستجدونه على صفحات هذا الكتاب الذي نضعه بين أيديكم والذي قد يشكل مادة أساسية في المناقشات السياسية للعلماء والأكاديميين في الشرق والغرب. (ديموقراطيات في خطر) يجمع أبحاثا منمقة أعدها نخبة من أرقى العلماء في العالم، لوضع مقترحات قابلة للتطبيق، كي تعمل الديموقراطيات الجديدة بصورة أفضل. النتيجة هي مساهمة قيمة سوف تكون قراءتها ضرورية للأكاديميين والممارسين على حد سواء-ريتشارد سنايدر، جامعة براو.
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Crafting State-Nations : India and other multinational democracies
Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the framework for the state-nation, a new paradigm that addresses the need within democratic nations to accommodate distinct ethnic and cultural groups within a country while maintaining national political coherence.
First introduced briefly in 1996 by Alfred Stepan and Juan J. Linz, the state-nation is a country with significant multicultural—even multinational—components that engenders strong identification and loyalty from its citizens. Here, Indian political scholar Yogendra Yadav joins Stepan and Linz to outline and develop the concept further. The core of the book documents how state-nation policies have helped craft multiple but complementary identities in India in contrast to nation-state policies in Sri Lanka, which contributed to polarized and warring identities. The authors support their argument with the results of some of the largest and most original surveys ever designed and employed for comparative political research. They include a chapter discussing why the U.S. constitutional model, often seen as the preferred template for all the world's federations, would have been particularly inappropriate for crafting democracy in politically robust multinational countries such as India or Spain. To expand the repertoire of how even unitary states can respond to territorially concentrated minorities with some secessionist desires, the authors develop a revised theory of federacy and show how such a formula helped craft the recent peace agreement in Aceh, Indonesia.
Empirically thorough and conceptually clear, Crafting State-Nations will have a substantial impact on the study of comparative political institutions and the conception and understanding of nationalism and democracy.
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Religion, Democracy, and the \Twin Tolerations\
Are all, or only some, of the world's religious systems politically compatible with democracy?
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Problems confronting contemporary democracies : essays in honor of Alfred Stepan
What are the consequences of different paths toward democracy? How can religion support democratic diversity? And what ongoing dilemmas do democratic governments face in reining in the armed forces that once ruled? The original essays in Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies investigate these and other questions, which Alfred Stepan addressed in his pioneering work as one of the most prominent comparative political scientists of the past four decades. The contributors, who came together at a conference in Stepan's honor at Columbia University in 2007, pay tribute to his work and illuminate some of the debates he launched, while advancing understanding of problems facing democracies around the world.
The essays in Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies demonstrate the substantive, geographic, and methodological range of Stepan's work by building on many of his major scholarly contributions. Principal themes include authoritarianism, the breakdown of democratic regimes, transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, democratic consolidation, the role of the military in politics, and ways—including the varieties of federalism—to manage conflict democratically in societies that are divided by religious, ethnic, and national cleavages. The contributions range from Latin America to the post-Soviet regions, Iran, China, Turkey, Israel, Spain and Portugal, and the United States. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of political science, sociology, and international studies, particularly Latin American and Middle Eastern studies.
Contributors: Scott Mainwaring, Douglas Chalmers, J. Samuel Fitch, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mark Ungar, László Bruszt, Robert M. Fishman, Mirjam Künkler, Ryan E. Carlin, Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo, Jonathan Hartlyn, Juan J. Linz, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Ashley Esarey, Edward L. Gibson, Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff, Brian H. Smith, Murat Akan, Hanna Lerner
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