Defender la democracia

estudios sobre la calidad democrática, el buen gobierno y la lucha contra la corrupción

En la actualidad, la escena política cuenta con numerosos fenómenos que ponen en jaque la perdurabilidad de algunos parámetros clásicos de la democracia como son la representación de la ciudadanía, la separación e independencia de los poderes públicos y la responsabilidad de los gobernantes frente ...

Utopías y ucronías

Hemos asistido a menudo al velatorio del pensamiento utópico, pero no podemos desahuciarlo al constituir un elemento inembargable de nuestro imaginario. Su etimología señala las balizas que inicialmente lo orientan: ou-topia significa “no lugar” y eu-topia “buen lugar”, y se vuelve una suerte de crisol ...

The Force of Nonviolence

The Ethical in the Political

Towards a form of aggressive nonviolence. Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm ...

Marx

Towards the Centre of Possibility

Classic study of Marx by Japan’s leading critical theorist Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the ...

The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory

International Political Theory (IPT) focuses on the point where two fields of study meet - International Relations and Political Theory. It takes from the former a central concern with the 'international' broadly defined; from the latter it takes a broadly normative identity. IPT studies the 'ought ...

How to save a constitutional democracy

Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In the United States, the tenure of Donald Trump has seemed decisive turning point for many. What kind of president intimidates jurors, calls ...

Probable justice

risk, insurance, and the welfare state

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same time, it affects nearly every ...

The limits of party congress and lawmaking in a polarized era

To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they ...

The referendum and other essays on constitutional politics

Until recently, referendums were little used. After the Scottish independence and Brexit referendums, they have come to the fore as a mechanism with the potential to disrupt the status quo and radically change political direction. This book looks at the historical development of the referendum ...

The new spanish revolutions

a rebellious journey across a changing Spain

Travelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and León and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Finnigan meets a remarkable cast of characters behind some of the biggest political events Spain has witnessed in decades. Whether it is the ...

The wolf at the door

the menace of economic insecurity and how to fight it

The acclaimed authors of Death by a Thousand Cuts argue that Americans care less about inequality than about their own insecurity. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro propose realistic policies and strategies to make lives and communities more secure. This is an age of crisis. That ...

Democracy without journalism?

confronting the misinformation society

As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, continuous revelations about the role that major media outlets-from Facebook to Fox News-play in the spread of misinformation have exposed deep pathologies in ...

La democracia como forma política y como forma de vida

Hoy en día se habla mucho de democracia. De un lado los totalitarismos están convencidos de que su orden político, su Estado, es la democracia “verdadera”, “legítima”, e incluso la llaman con preferencia democracia popular. Con ello quieren expresar seguramente que se trata de una ...

How social movements can save democracy

Leading political sociologist della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering democracy. Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, she investigates contemporary innovations of the progressive Left in times of crisis and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative ...

Electoral shocks

the volatile voter in a turbulent world

Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the role of electoral shocks in the context of increasing electoral volatility. It demonstrates and explains the long-term trend in volatility, how shocks have contributed to the ...

The Oxford Handbook of Spanish politics

The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Spanish political system through the lens of political science. It aims to move away from a complacent analysis of Spanish democracy and provide a nuanced view of some of its strengths ...

Utopia

Mark Jendrysik examines the multifarious ways utopians have posed the question of how humans might realize truly human values.

A left that dares to speak its name

Slavoj Zizek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex 'unicorns' to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on the Left, Right, and Centre, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly understood from ...

Alternative für Deutschland The AfD

Germany's new nazis or another populist party?

Right-wing populism has been on the rise in Europe and elsewhere. Germanys foremost populist party is called Alternative for Germany (AfD). Founded in 2013 and entering Germanys federal parliament in 2017, the AfD increasingly moved towards right-wing extremism. Today, the party is Germanys most successful ...

The hacker and the State

cyber attacks and the new normal of geopolitics

Few national-security threats are as menacing-or as nebulous-as state-sponsored hacking. Ben Buchanan plunges us into the brave new world of cyber attacks and reveals how hackers are transforming spycraft and statecraft, catching us all in the crossfire, whether we know it or not. Ever since ...