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Democracy, governance, and law /

This volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviancebrings together scholars to debate sociological, socio-legal, and related insights from the social and behavioral sciences concerned with important contemporary questions on democracy, and its role for matters of governance and law.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Deflem, Mathieu (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 29.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Political science.
Law.
Démocratie locale.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • About the Editor
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction: The Spirit of Democracies
  • References
  • Part I: Law and Politics
  • Chapter 1: Mobilizing Law Against Democracy
  • Introduction
  • Lawyers as Agents of Autocratic Legalism
  • A Lawfare Case Study: "Stop the Steal"
  • Conditions of Possibility
  • Collective Action Frame: "Voting Fraud"
  • Mobilizing Network: "Lawyers for Trump"
  • Repertoires of Contention
  • Weaponizing Conspiracy Claims in Court
  • Blurring Fact and Fiction by Mixing Law and Media
  • Mobilizing Law Behind the Scenes to Authorize "Fake Electors"
  • Coopting Gatekeepers and Declaring Emergency Power
  • Lawyers in the Future of Democracy
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2: National Parliament as a Global Institution
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Background: Neoinstitutionalism and Ritual Theory
  • Managing the Sacred Principles of Policymaking in Parliamentary Business
  • National Sovereignty
  • Parliamentarians' Independence
  • The Common Good
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Digital Democracy in a "Black-Box" Regime: The Conservative Origins of Taiwan's Open Government Policy, 2011-2016
  • Introduction
  • The Historical Factors Behind Taiwan's Open Government Policy
  • The Profit Motives behind Open Government
  • Elites' Conception of Democracy
  • Reaction to the Sunflower Movement in 2014
  • The Democratic Implications of Open Government Data
  • Data Selection and Input
  • Platform Design
  • Data Intermediaries
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Bureaucratic Clientelism as Mechanism of Corruption in a Decentralized Democracy: The Case of Indonesia
  • Introduction
  • Clientelism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy
  • Conceptualizing Bureaucratic Clientelism
  • Bureaucratic Clientelism and Electoral Democracy
  • Bureaucratic Clientelism in Indonesia
  • Bureaucratic Corruptions within Suharto's Authoritarian Regime
  • Deepening Bureaucratic Clientelism in Decentralized Indonesian Democracy
  • How Local Bureaucratic Clientelism Practices Undermine Redistribution
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Democracy and Changing Security Landscapes: In Search of Constitutional Conjunctures
  • Introduction
  • An Empirical Analysis of Constitution Making
  • Conjuncture 1: Typologies of Violence
  • Conjuncture 2: International Law and Democracy
  • Constituent Power and the Dialectic of Democracy
  • Constituent Power and Vertical Militarism
  • Constituent Power and Horizontal Militarism
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: Debate and Participation
  • Chapter 6: The Public Sphere: Democracy and the Right Peaceably to Assemble
  • Introduction
  • Habermas and the Public Sphere
  • The Transformation of the American Public Sphere
  • Charlottesville and the Unraveling of the Public Sphere