Globalization, EU Democracy Assistance and the World Social Forum Concepts and Practices of Democracy /

• Main Author: Fiedlschuster, Micha (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Subjects: Political sociology.; European Union.; Globalization.; Democracy.; Political Sociology.; European Union Politics.

Seeking to extend the debate on the diversity of democracy, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of how two different global actors, the European Union and the World Social Forum respond to the challenges of globalization with various models of democracy and modes of cooperatio...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Democracy and Globalization
• 2. EU Democracy Assistance: Continuity and Conceptual Changes
• 3. EU Concepts of Democracy and Civil Society
• 4. The World Social Forum and Approaches to Global Civil Society
• 5. A Neo-Gramscian Reading of Global Civil Society and the World Social Forum
• 6. Meeting Democracy: Organizational Structures and Models of Democracy in the World Social Forum
• 7. Partial Organization and the Quest for Democracy: The International Council of the World Social Forum
• 8. Towards a Conclusion: Globalization Processes and the 'Crisis of Democracy'.