| Twenty-First Century Democracy Contributor(s): Resnick, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 077351659X ISBN-13: 9780773516595 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: According to a recent feature The Economist, democracy has been only half achieved this century and should flower the next. preparation for new forms of democracy, well-known political theorist Philip Resnick addresses some of the fundamental questions surrounding the practice of democracy at the end of the twentieth century and the difficulties of governance the twenty-first century, including issues of globalization, nationalism, and direct democracy. Topics this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Hobbesian analysis of the ongoing challenges that democratic theory faces; from an assertion of the importance of social and economic equality to a recognition of the limits of solidarity the real world of pluralistic and divided societies which we live; from identification with the cosmopolitan and the international to a defence of the national and the local; from a predilection for direct democracy and the lost community of republican theory, past and present, to a recognition of the fairly circumscribed ways in which these can ultimately be expressed our day. In spite of the challenges facing global democracy, Resnick looks to the next millennium with renewed hope for the democratic project. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 321.8 |
| LCCN: 98186069 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.93" W x 8.85" (0.65 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Topics in this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Hobbesian analysis of the ongoing challenges that democratic theory faces; from an assertion of the importance of social and economic equality to a recognition of the limits of solidarity in the real world of pluralistic and divided societies in which we live; from identification with the cosmopolitan and the international to a defence of the national and the local; from a predilection for direct democracy and the lost community of republican theory, past and present, to a recognition of the fairly circumscribed ways in which these can ultimately be expressed in our day. In spite of the challenges facing global democracy, Resnick looks to the next millennium with renewed hope for the democratic project. |