Democracy, agency, and the state : theory with comparative intent

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author : O'Donnell Guillermo A. (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Democracy, agency, and the state : theory with comparative intent / Guillermo O'Donnell
Published : Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press , cop. 2010
Physical Description : 1 vol. (VI-264 p.)
Series : Oxford studies in democratization
Subjects :
  • P. 1
  • Introduction
  • P. 13
  • The democratic regime (or political democracy), and citizenship as agency
  • P. 31
  • Agency : origins, concomitants, and expansion
  • P. 51
  • The state : definition, dimensions, and historical emergence
  • P. 73
  • The varying referents of the state : nation, people, citizenry
  • P. 93
  • The state as law : contributions and ambivalences
  • P. 115
  • The multiple faces of the state and its underlying unity
  • P. 133
  • Dialogics, agency, and democracy
  • P. 145
  • An overview of Latin America
  • P. 167
  • Social context, options, and convergences
  • P. 183
  • The conundrums of globalization and legal pluralism
  • P. 203
  • Conclusion