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In looking at the remarkable proliferation of democracies since 1974, this volume offers important insight into the challenges and opportunities that democracy faces in the twenty-first century. Distinguished contributors detail the contemporary threats to democracy emanating from internal sources s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nardulli, Peter F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:Democracy, free enterprise, and the rule of law.
Temas:
Democracy.
Cultural pluralism.
Political sociology.
Information society > Political aspects.
Diversité culturelle.
Sociologie politique.
Société de l'information > Aspect politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Cultural pluralism
Democracy
Information society > Political aspects
Political sociology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Democracy Challenged: Demography, Technology, and Democratic Possibilities
  • Part I: Social Heterogeneity and Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities
  • 2. Problems of Democratic Transition in Divided Societies
  • 3. Citizens, Identities, and Democratic Dialogues: Opportunities and Challenges of Diverse Societies
  • 4. Democracy, Diversity, and Leadership
  • 5. Electoral Engineering, Social Cleavages, and Democracy
  • Part II: Technology and Democracy: Mass-Elite Linkages in the Twenty-first Century6. Technological Advances and Individual Liberties: Privacy and the Reach of the State in the Twenty-first Century
  • 7. Engineering Consent: The Persistence of a Problematic Communication Regime
  • 8. The Internet and Political Fragmentation
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • back cover

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