The Trouble with Democracy: Political Modernity in the 21st Century - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1474428398 ISBN 13: 9781474428392

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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Reseña del editor

Western political thought has long maintained that democracy, once achieved, is here to stay. This view appears to be supported by successive 'waves of democratisation' across the world but, in truth, the political situation of our time is much more ambiguous. On the one hand, the commitment to democracy seems to be more widely shared than ever; on the other, popular will has ever less impact on political decisions because of alleged constraints in an era of 'globalisation'. Existing democracies suffer from a combination of technocratic governance and populist reactions. Global political communication has foundered with addressing urgent problems such as climate change, global social justice and economic-financial crises. By placing political condition of our time in its long-term historical context, this book radically reconsiders key issues of political thought and gives you a comparative exploration of the current experiences of democracy in several world-regions.

Biografía del autor

Gerard Rosich is Doctoral Researcher within the ERC Advanced Grant Research Project Trajectories of Modernity at The University of Barcelona. Peter Wagner is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1474428398
• ISBN 13: 9781474428392
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Rosich Gerard, Wagner Peter