Why Democracies Flounder and Fail
Remedying Mass Society Politics
Published on 12. July 2018
Book
Hardback
XV, 523 pages
978-3-319-74069-0 (ISBN)
Description
Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore's totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock, and there is a global democracy deficit, solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of government. The book demonstrates how mass society politics operates, with intermediate institutions of civil society (media, pressure groups, political parties) no longer transmitting the will of the people to government but instead are concerned with corporate interests and have developed oligarchical mindsets. Rather than micro-remedy bandaids, the author focuses on the need to transform governing philosophies from pragmatic to humanistic solutions.
Reviews / Votes
"Haas' work yields a rich and comprehensive perspective on why democracies flounder and fail. Haas identifies factors of selfish policy-makers and companies, alongside the inability of the electorate to have a strong enough impact on their government or civil society. The book contributes to the existing body of research on democratization by illuminating the critical factors related to the current inadequacies and long-standing failures on the part of democracies, both in national and international level." (Ikhsan Darmawan, Democratization, August 23, 2019)
More details
Edition
2019 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
XV, 523 p. 3 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-74069-0 (9783319740690)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-74070-6
Schweitzer Classification
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01/2019
Palgrave Macmillan
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E-Book
06/2018
1st Edition
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Person
Michael Haas
is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and political scientist who has taught at several universities-London, Northwestern, Purdue, the University of California (Riverside), the University of Hawai?i, and multiple campuses of California State University. The author of more than 50 books, including Asian and Pacific Cooperation, International Relations Theory, and Political Science Revitalized, he now gives public lecturers around the world.
Content
1. Democracy: Components and Types.- 2. Mass Society Paradigm.- 3. Immobilism in the French Fourth Republic.- 4. Singapore's Totalitarian Mass Society.- 5. Gridlock in Washington.- 6. Global Mass Society.- 7. Remedies for the Perils of Mass Society.