Trust in the capacities of the people, distrust in elites /

Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of it where people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an unending struggle to win such rights and power, to hold and to extend them. The contending classes are essentially the poor and weak majority of the peo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Good, Kenneth, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.
Temas:
Democratization > Case studies.
Elite (Social sciences) > Political activity > Case studies.
Legitimacy of governments > Case studies.
Démocratisation > Études de cas.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Activité politique > Études de cas.
Légitimité des gouvernements > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Democratization
Elite (Social sciences) > Political activity
Legitimacy of governments
Case studies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Democratization in Athens : participatory democracy as a dual process of empowering the people and controlling elites
  • Democratization in Britain : a long, repeated and incomplete aspiration
  • Democratization in South Africa : the people versus a militarist, predominant ethno-nationalist elite
  • Democracy in the capitalist heartlands : alienation and dysfunctionalities
  • Democratization in Europe and North Africa : democracy regains its revolutionary potentialities
  • Democratization in South Africa in 21st century : the potentialities of the organized urban poor and the hostility of a factionalized and corrupt ANC.

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