Democracy and Crisis: Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century

278 Pages·2014·1.276 MB·English

by  Benjamin Isakhan, Steven Slaughter (eds.)

Democracy and Crisis
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Democracy and Crisis
Democratising Governance
in the T wenty- First Century
Edited by
Benjamin Isakhan
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Citizenship and Globalization, Deakin University,
Australia
and
Steven Slaughter
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Deakin University, Australia
Selection, introduction, conclusion and editorial matter© Benjamin Isakhan
and Steven Slaughter 2014
Remaining chapters © Respective authors 2014
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction: Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty- First Century 1
Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter
Part I Reconsidering Governance
1 Decentering Governance: A Democratic Turn? 25
Mark Bevir
2 The Democratic Accountability of Collaborative Innovation
in the Public Sector 44
Jacob Torfing
Part II The Global Financial Crisis and Democracy
3 The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Public Reasoning 71
Matthias Goldmann
4 Neo- liberal Governance and the Protest Politics of the
Occupy Movement 88
Daniel Bray
5 Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: The European
Union’s Crisis of D e- Politicisation 108
Natalie J. Doyle
6 Disintegrating European Austerity in Greece and Germany 125
Roderic Pitty
Part III Transitional and Transnational Attempts to
Democratise Governance
7 Democratising Governance after the Arab Revolutions:
The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance
Networks of Egypt 149
Benjamin Isakhan
8 WikiLeaks and the Limits of Representative Democracy and
Transnational Democratisation 166
Steven Slaughter
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Part IV Global Governance and Democratic Crises
9 Global Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy 189
Roland Axtmann
10 Global Unionism and Global Governance 209
Andrew Vandenberg
11 Climate Crisis and the Limits of Liberal Democracy?
Germany, Australia and India Compared 229
James Goodman and Tom Morton
Conclusion: The Future of Democratic Governance 253
Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter
Index 264
Acknowledgements
This book emerged from a set of common concerns held by the
editors regarding the topic of how democracies might best respond to
contemporary crises by democratising governance networks. A major
international forum was convened on this topic and attended by
around forty people in November of 2011 including those from the UK,
India and across Australia. The event was co- ordinated by the members
of the Governance, Media and Democracy Thematic Research Group
at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University,
Australia. The editors would like to thank all those who participated in,
attended and helped organise this event, with special mention going
to both Fethi Mansouri and Hans Lofgren for their enthusiasm and
support for this project. The professionalism and calibre of the people
involved, along with the quality of the papers delivered, is the reason
that so many deemed the event such a great success. Additional thanks
go to those who presented papers at the forum and then promptly made
a full written version available for inclusion in this book. We are also
indebted to our international contributors who were unable to attend
the forum but who were able to supply us with quality chapters. We
would also like to thank several research assistants who helped in the
early stages of this project including Adela Aliaga- Yori, Libby Effeney
and Jessica Fielding, the anonymous referees who read earlier versions
of the chapters, and the editorial expertise of Jennifer Kloester. We are
also grateful to the many staff of Palgrave Macmillan who have contrib-
uted to the production of this book, particularly Amber S tone- Galilee
for her initial interest and confidence in the work.
On a personal note, Benjamin would like to thank Lyndal and
Thomas for their much needed patience, encouragement and love.
Steven would like to thank Yvette, Zara and Lucinda for their love and
support.
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Notes on Contributors
Roland Axtmann has been Professor and Chair in Politics and
International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of Culture
and Politics at Swansea University, United Kingdom, since 2005. He has
published a number of monographs and edited volumes in the area of
globalisation, cosmopolitanism and democracy: Liberal Democracy into
the Twenty-F irst Century: Globalization, Integration and the Nation- State
(1996), Globalisation and Europe: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
(1998), Balancing Democracy (2001), Understanding Democratic Politics
(2003) and Democracy: Problems and Perspectives (2007).
Mark Bevir is Professor in the Department of Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and c o- author of The
Logic of the History of Ideas (1999), Interpreting British Governance (2003),
New Labour: A Critique (2005), Governance Stories (2006), Key Concepts in
Governance (2009), The State as Cultural Practice (with R.A.W. Rhodes,
2010), Democratic Governance (2010), The Making of British Socialism
(2011), Governance: A Very Short Introduction (2012) and A Theory of
Governance (2013).
Daniel Bray is Lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University,
Australia. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Melbourne in
2009 for a thesis that developed an ideal of representative democracy
based on democratic leadership and the development of critical intel-
ligence. His main research and teaching expertise is in international
ethics, globalisation, democratic theory and environmental politics.
His current research specifically focuses on cosmopolitan approaches
to international relations and pragmatist democratic theory. He is the
author of Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: Representation and Leadership in
Transnational Democracy (2011).
Natalie J. Doyle is Senior Lecturer in French and European Studies at
Monash University, Melbourne, and Deputy Director of the Monash
European and EU Centre. Her research and publications have dealt
with European social and political thought, classical and contempo-
rary. Recent publications include Domains and Divisions of European
History (2010) and New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds? (2011).
Most recently she has been engaging with the instrumentalisation
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Notes on Contributors ix
of Islamophobia in Western Europe’s contemporary crisis of political
representation.
Matthias Goldmann is Senior Research fellow at the Max Planck
Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in
Heidelberg, Germany. He has published widely on topics such as
Theory of International Law, International Organizations, Global
Administrative Law, Sovereign Debt and Financial Markets. His most
recent publication is ‘Sovereign Debt Crises as Threats to the Peace:
Restructuring under Chapter VII of the UN Charter?’ in The Journal of
International Law (2012).
James Goodman is Associate Professor in the Social and Political
Change Group at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has edited
several books on the politics of globalisation, including Nationalism and
Global Solidarities: Alternative Projections to Neoliberal Globalisation (2007)
and Nature’s Revenge: Reclaiming Sustainability in an Age of Corporate
Globalism (2006). His most recent books are on the policy ideas of
the global justice movement, Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy
(forthcoming with Sage), and he is the co- e ditor of Crisis, Movement,
Management: Globalising Dynamics (forthcoming with Routledge).
Benjamin Isakhan is Australian Research Council (DECRA) Senior
Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation and
Convenor of the Australia Middle East Research Forum at Deakin
University, Australia. He is the author of Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics
and Discourse (2012) and the editor of The Secret History of Democracy
(2012), The Arab Revolutions in Context: Civil Society and Democracy in a
Changing Middle East (2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to the History
of Democracy (2012).
Tom Morton is Associate Professor of Journalism in the Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences at University of Technology Sydney and Director of
the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. Before joining UTS
in 2010 he was an a ward- winning journalist, broadcaster and documen-
tary producer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for more
than 20 years. He is the author of a study of contemporary masculinity
in Australia (Altered Mates: The Man Question, 1997), and has written
numerous features, essays and op- ed pieces for the Sydney Morning
Herald, The Age, the Australian Financial Review and Griffith Review.
Roderic Pitty is Associate Professor of International Relations and
Discipline Chair of Political Science and International Relations in the