Mathieu Deflem, Editor
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This book is published as Volume 29 of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance.
Published by Emerald Publishing (Leeds, UK), April 2025.
ISBN: 9781835493953
© 2025
SYNOPSIS
Democracy, Governance, and Law brings together scholars to discuss 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.
Issues related to democratic ideals and realities are very much at the forefront of many public discussions today. These questions move
societies in many contexts and with respect to multiple institutions, not least among which are law, government, and the interconnections
between them. With each chapter in this book focusing on a specific topic such as abortion, the rule of law, criminal legal systems, electoral politics, white terror, challenges to democracy, and more, the collection is theoretically and methodologically diverse, covering a broad range of issues to address important questions on governance and law in relation to the idea and reality of democracy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scott L. Cummings
Pertti Alasuutari
Digital Democracy in a ‘Black-Box’ Regime: The Conservative Origins of Taiwan’s Open Government Policy, 2011-2016
Terrence Ting-Yen Chen
Bureaucratic Clientelism as Mechanism of Corruption in a Decentralized Democracy: The Case of Indonesia
Rahardhika Utama
Democracy and Changing Security Landscapes: In Search of Constitutional Conjunctures
Chris Thornhill
The Public Sphere: Democracy and the Right Peaceably to Assemble
Cary Federman
How the State Shapes Municipal Debates
Meaghan Stiman
In the Shadow of Sunshine Laws: Open Meeting Laws and Administrative Burdens
Sadie Dempsey
Racial Justice Activism and Democracy: The Deliberative Role of Black Women Athletes [available online]
Brandii Brunson and Mathieu Deflem
Who Is Allowed to Cooperate? Assessing the Concept of Membership of Interpol in Light of the Denial of Participation of Taiwan
Giulio Calcara and Luke Fisher
Disenfranchisement, Reenfranchisement, and Crime
Christopher Uggen and Emma Lookner
Democracy Under Assault: Coordinated Destruction and Voter Suppression in Mississippi
Jordan Burke
Sociological Dimensions of Justice: Analyzing Demographic Disparities in the Aftermath of the Capitol Insurrection
Karmvir K. Padda
Punitive Publics: Direct Democracy and the Criminal Legal System in the United States
Andrew P. Davis and Teron J. Nunley
Social Problems and Social Control: The Case of Abortion
Stacy Lee Burns and Mark Peyrot
AVAILABILITY
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