Sunday, June 28, 2015

New Issue: Global Policy

The latest issue of Global Policy (Vol. 6, Supp. 1, June 2015) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Changing the European Debate: A Rollback of Democracy
    • Helmut K. Anheier, Current Trajectories of Democracy – Diagnosis, Implications, Proposals
    • Ewa Atanassow, Rollback of Democracy? A Tocquevillean Perspective
    • Dario Castiglione, Trajectories and Transformations of the Democratic Representative System
    • Arndt Leininger, Direct Democracy in Europe: Potentials and Pitfalls
    • Béla Greskovits, The Hollowing and Backsliding of Democracy in East Central Europe
    • László Bruszt, Regional Normalization and National Deviations: EU Integration and Transformations in Europe's Eastern Periphery
    • Elisabeth Kotthaus, External Democracy Promotion and Protection: the EU Approach
    • Didi Kuo & Nolan McCarty, Democracy in America, 2015
    • Wolfgang Seibel, Arduous Learning or New Uncertainties? The Emergence of German Diplomacy in the Ukrainian Crisis
    • Sonja Grimm, European Democracy Promotion in Crisis: Conflicts of Objectives, Neglected External–Domestic Interactions and the Authoritarian Backlash
    • Alexander Ruser, By the Markets, of the Markets, for the Markets? Technocratic Decision Making and the Hollowing Out of Democracy
    • Bernhard Weßels, Political Culture, Political Satisfaction and the Rollback of Democracy
    • Jonathan White, When Parties Make Peoples
    • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Fixing Europe Is About Performance, Not Democracy
    • Helmut K. Anheier, Conclusion: How to Rule the Void? Policy Responses to a ‘Hollowing Out’ of Democracy