Twenty-First Century Democracy

✍ Scribed by Philip Resnick

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 178
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

According to a recent feature in The Economist, democracy has been only half achieved this century and should flower in the next. In preparation for new forms of democracy, well-known political theorist Philip Resnick addresses some of the fundamental questions surrounding the practice of democracy at the end of the twentieth century and the difficulties of governance in the twenty-first century, including issues of globalization, nationalism, and direct democracy.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: GLOBAL DEMOCRACY
1 Twenty-First Century Democracy, or Cleisthenes Revisited
2 Isonomía, Isegoría, Isomoiría, and Democracy at the Global Level
PART TWO: REALPOLITIK / NEO-CONSERVATISM
3 In the Shadow of Hobbes: The Challenge to Democratic Theory
4 Neo-conservatism and Beyond
PART THREE: PARTICIPATION / CIVIL SOCIETY
5 Can Direct Democracy Coexist with the Modern State?
6 Democratic Safety Valves: The Therapeutic Effects of Anti-Political Referendums
7 Whatever Happened to Civil Society?
PART FOUR: NATION, IDENTITY, AND COMMUNITY
8 Democracy and Nationalism
9 Culture, Identity, and Globalization
10 In Search of the Lost Community: Charles Taylor and Modernity
Bibliography
Index
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