Challenges to Democracy

<p>This title was first published in 2000: The essays gathered in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and practical issues concerning a variety of problems which democracies confront time and again. Their aim is to look at challenges to democracy that evolve from within democracy. The discussion sets out to examine how democracies in different times dealt with attempts to undermine democratic processes and fundamental human rights. The design of the book is both interdisciplinary and comparative offering historical philosophical legal sociological political and media perspectives of renowned scholars from the UK Israel the USA and Canada. They analyze how different societies try to cope with and find answers for attacks against them by political extremists cultural chauvinists terrorists hate groups and other radical movements.</p>