Counter-democracy : politics in an age of distrust /
Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | John Robert Seeley lectures ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Vigilance, denunciation, evaluation
- The overseers
- The thread of history
- Legitimacy conflicts
- From the right of resistance to complex sovereignty
- Self-critical democracies
- Negative politics
- Historical references
- Almost legislators
- The preference for judgment
- The sense of powerlessness and symbols of depoliticization
- The populist temptation
- Lessons of unpolitical economy
- Conclusion: the modern mixed regime.