Democracy under Threat A Crisis of Legitimacy? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: van Beek, Ursula (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Democracy.; Comparative politics.; Globalization.; Comparative Politics.

This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation? Is there a legitimacy crisis in contemporary democracies? Is the welfare state in individual countries under pressure from global trends? What are the implications of high-level migration a...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Ursula van Beek
• Part I: Theoretical aspects and overview
• Chapter 1: Globalization, Populism and Legitimacy in Contemporary Democracy; Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann
• Chapter 2: Temporal Models of Political Development; Laurence Whitehead
• Chapter 3: Democratic Quality and Legitimacy in the TRU Countries; Ursula Hoffmann-Lange and Dirk Berg-Schlosser
• Part II: Critical cases
• Chapter 4: The Return of Nationalist Ethos: The Loss of Liberal Democracy in Poland?; Ursula van Beek
• Chapter 5: Identity politics: Extreme polarization and loss of capacity to compromise in Turkey; Yilmaz Esmer
• Chapter 6: Political Radicalism: Responding to the Legitimacy Gap in South Africa; Nicola de Jager and Cindy Steenekamp
• Part III: Regional aspects
• Chapter 7: Democratization in Chile: A Long Run and Comparative Perspective; Laurence Whitehead
• Chapter 8: Democratic Resilience in South Korea and Taiwan; Joseph Wong
• Chapter 9: Globalization and Political Legitimacy in Western Europe; Dieter Fuchs and Edeltraud Roller
• Part IV: Global aspects
• Chapter 10: Globalisation and Social Protection: An Economic Perspective; Krige Siebrits
• Chapter 11: Global Electronic Screen Culture: Legitimacy at Stake?; Pierre du Toit
• Chapter 12: Lessons for Democracy: Diplomacy to the Rescue?; Christer Jönsson
• Part V: Concluding Chapter
• The Question of Legitimacy in Contemporary Democracies; Ursula van Beek, Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann. .