What Is Democracy?
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2019
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-367-31394-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31394-4 (9780367313944)
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Alain Touraine | David Macey
What Is Democracy?
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04/1997
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
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Alain Touraine | David Macey
What Is Democracy?
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1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
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Person
Alain Touraine is a sociologist and currently director of the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is also the author of The Return of the Actor and Critique of Modernity. David Macey.
Content
Introduction -- Part 1: The Three Dimensions of Democracy -- A New Idea -- Human Rights, Representation, and Citizenship -- Limitations on Power -- Representative Political Actors -- Citizenship -- Part 2: A History of the Modern Democratic Spirit -- Republicans and Liberals -- Opening Up a Public Space -- Part 3: Democratic Culture -- The Politics of the Subject -- Recomposing the World -- Part 4: Democracy and Development -- Modernization or Development? -- Transforming Old into New -- Democratization in the East and the South? -- Conclusion