Focusing on the emergence of young citizens as a global priority, the book explores the conditions and processes that shape children's and young people's participation in social change. It draws on extensive international literature and interviews with practitioners, policy-makers, and activists from diverse countries, including Japan, South Africa, and the UK. Engaging with contemporary debates around citizenship, rights, and governance, it examines the complex dynamics that influence how children and youth are governed and empowered to self-govern.
The book examines the engagement of young people with contemporary politics, analyzing their actions both within institutions and at grassroots levels. It delves into the dynamics of youth participation, highlighting their influence and resistance in political contexts. Through various case studies, it reveals the complexities of young activists' roles and their strategies for effecting change in society.
This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama. It shows how the ancient tales of greatness and its loss point to the potential dangers of democracy then and now. Greek Tragedy dramatized a variety of stories, characters, and voices drawn from reality, especially from those marginalized by Athens's democracy. It brought up dissident figures through its multivocal form, disrupting the perception of an ordered reality. Today, this helps us grasp the reality of Athenian democracy, that is, a system steeped in patriarchy, slavery, warmongering, and xenophobia. The book reads through two renditions of Aeschylus' Suppliants as democratic texts for the twenty-first century, to show how such multivocal dramas actually address not only the pitfalls of our contemporary democracy, but also a range of environmental, security, socio-economic, and political dilemmas that afflict democratic politics today. Written in a very accessible manner, Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy is a lively book that will appeal to any political science and international relations student interested in issues of democracy, governance, democratic peace, and democratic theory.
Offering the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between populism and
political meritocracy, this book asks why states with meritocratic systems
such as Singapore and China have not faced the populist challenge to the
extent that liberal democratic states have. Is political meritocracy immune to
populism? Or does it fan its flames?
Tells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the
UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. The author investigates
how the unit was originated, developed, and implemented, offering an important
historical record of this unique initiative.
