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UNINA9910782637303321 |
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Resnick Philip |
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Twenty-first century democracy [[electronic resource] /] / Philip Resnick |
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Montr?eal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-85469-0 |
9786612854699 |
0-7735-6679-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Democracy |
Twenty-first century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-164) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Global Democracy -- Twenty-First Century Democracy, or Cleisthenes Revisited -- Isonomía, Isegoría, Isomoiría, and Democracy at the Global Level -- Realpolitik/Neo-conservatism -- In the Shadow of Hobbes: The Challenge to Democratic Theory -- Neo-conservatism and Beyond -- Participation/Civil Society -- Can Direct Democracy Coexist with the Modern State? -- Democratic Safety Valves: The Therapeutic Effects of Anti-Political Referendums -- Whatever Happened to Civil Society? -- Nation, Identity, and Community -- Democracy and Nationalism -- Culture, Identity, and Globalization -- In Search of the Lost Community: Charles Taylor and Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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