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" Democracy, agency, and the state : "
Guillermo O'Donnell.
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BL
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874111
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O'Donnell, Guillermo A.
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Democracy, agency, and the state : : theory with comparative intent /\ Guillermo O'Donnell.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010.
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Oxford studies in democratization
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264 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0199587612
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: 9780199587612
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and index.
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The democratic regime (or political democracy), and citizenship as agency -- Agency : origins, concomitants, and expansion -- The state : definition, dimensions, and historical emergence -- The varying referents of the state : nation, people, citizenry -- The state as law : contributions and ambivalences -- The multiple faces of the state and its underlying unity -- Dialogics, agency, and democracy -- An overview of Latin America -- Social context, options, and convergences -- The conundrums of globalization and legal pluralism.
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The author argues that conceptions of 'the state' and 'democracy', and their respective defining features, significantly influence each other. Historical and analytically, this relationship is traced through the idea of legally sanctioned and backed agency which grounds democratic citizenship. He distinguishes four constitutive dimensions: bureaucracy, legality, focus of collective identity, and filter. Also examined is the role played by the idea of 'the nation' or 'the people', and the ways in which the state represents itself to different sections of society, especially in countries marred by deep inequality and pervasive poverty. Drawing on the examples of democratic and non-democratic regime, he discusses the dialogical spaces congenial to democracy, as well as examining the options that may or may not enable agency, and the complex comparative and ethical issues raised by the intersection of agency with globalization and legal pluralism.
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Democracy.
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State, The.
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Democracy.
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Demokratie.
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Demokratie.
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Politische Theorie.
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Staat.
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Staat.
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State, The.
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321.8
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JC423.O254 2010
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