Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Stephen J. Rosow is professor of political science at the State University of New York at Oswego. Jim George was senior lecturer at the Australian National University until his retirement in 2012.
Introduction: One or Many Forms of Democracy?
Chapter 1: Democracy in Historical Context: Toward Heterodoxy
Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and Democracy: Debate, Conflict, and Contestation in the Current Era
Chapter 3: What Does Democracy Mean in the Neoliberal Era? The Case of Venezuela and "Bolivarian Democracy"
Chapter 4: Democracy as a Challenge to Neoliberalism: Heterodoxy in South Africa, India, and Russia
Chapter 5: Globalization and the Destabilization of Democracy
Chapter 6: New Democratic Subjects in Neoliberal Globalization
Selected Bibliography
Globalization and Democracy examines the ways that neoliberal economics threatens democracy and whether there are alternative economic policies that can enhance democracy. For Rosow and George, democracy cannot simply be about voting and interest group politics but must include a strong, consistent, popular presence that not only demands social justice but also actively participates in the forging of public policies to achieve this goal. In this provocative book, Rosow and George take up studies of several countries where neoliberalism is ascendant, such as Russia, and countries where the authors find a popularly based democratic alternative in command, such as Venezuela. . . .[T]his lively, well-researched book challenges many popular assumptions about the benefits of globalization, particularly its effects on democracy. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.
— Choice Reviews
In their rigorous and historically grounded account, Rosow and George demonstrate what it means to do political theory. From classical Athens to the Occupy movements, their text ranges across time and space to remind us that democracy is not liberalism and that politics is not easy. An outstanding introduction to one of the most important concepts in modern political life.
— Anthony F. Lang Jr., University of St. Andrews
This challenging and stimulating work forcefully critiques the assumptions of post–Cold War democratic political theory and neoliberal economic ideology. Stephen J. Rosow and Jim George present imaginative new ways of rethinking democracy and its relationship to globalization through historical and current examples. By highlighting how promoting democracy and neoliberal economic policies follows limited and limiting agendas, they articulate a more subtle and socially relevant picture of what potential democratic possibilities might mean in the globalized twenty-first century.
— Daniel Warner, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Provides a systematic analysis of the democratic theory of neoliberal globalization
Presents case studies of democratic responses to neoliberal globalism
Focuses on the complexity and diversity of democratic politics and movements
Offers an original theorization of democracy
Balances judiciously between the theoretical and the empirical
Includes case studies from a wide global range: Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe