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

Introduction: Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century; Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter PART I: RECONSIDERING GOVERNANCE 1. Decentreing Governance: A Democratic Turn?; Mark Bevir 2. The Democratic Accountability of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector; Jacob Torfing PART II: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND DEMOCRACY 3. The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Public Reasoning; Matthias Goldmann 4. Neo-Liberal Governance and the Protest Politics of the Occupy Movement; Daniel Bray 5. Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: The European Union's Crisis of De-Politicisation; Natalie J. Doyle 6. Disintegrating European Austerity in Greece and Germany; Roderic Pitty PART III: TRANSITIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ATTEMPTS TO DE3MOCRATISE GOVERNANCE 7. Democratising Governance after the Arab Revolutions: The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance Networks of Egypt; Benjamin Isakhan 8. WikiLeaks and the Limits of Representative Democracy and Transnational Democratisation; Steven Slaughter PART IV: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRATIC CRISES 9. Global Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy; Roland Axtmann 10. Global Unionism and Global Governance; Andrew Vandenberg 11. Climate Crises and the Limits of Liberal Democracy? Germany, Australia and India Compared; James Goodman and Tom Morton Conclusion: The Future of Democratic Governance ; Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter