04041nam 22006735 450 991033802010332120200630132538.03-319-74070-910.1007/978-3-319-74070-6(CKB)4100000004974888(MiAaPQ)EBC5438604(DE-He213)978-3-319-74070-6(PPN)25947052X(EXLCZ)99410000000497488820180626d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhy Democracies Flounder and Fail[electronic resource] Remedying Mass Society Politics /by Michael Haas1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (526 pages)3-319-74069-5 1. Democracy: Components and Types -- 2. Mass Society Paradigm -- 3. Immobilism in the French Fourth Republic -- 4. Singapore’s Totalitarian Mass Society -- 5. Gridlock in Washington -- 6. Global Mass Society -- 7. Remedies for the Perils of Mass Society.Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore’s totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock, and there is a global democracy deficit, solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of government. The book demonstrates how mass society politics operates, with intermediate institutions of civil society (media, pressure groups, political parties) no longer transmitting the will of the people to government but instead are concerned with corporate interests and have developed oligarchical mindsets. Rather than micro-remedy bandaids, the author focuses on the need to transform governing philosophies from pragmatic to humanistic solutions. Michael Haas is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and political scientist who has taught at several universities—London, Northwestern, Purdue, the University of California (Riverside), the University of Hawaiʻi, and multiple campuses of California State University. The author of more than 50 books, including Asian and Pacific Cooperation, International Relations Theory, and Political Science Revitalized, he now gives public lecturers around the world.DemocracyPolitical economyPolitical sciencePolitical theoryEconomic developmentSocial changeGlobalizationDemocracyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911050International Political Economyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912140Governance and Governmenthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911220Political Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010Development and Social Changehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/913030Globalizationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912030Democracy.Political economy.Political science.Political theory.Economic development.Social change.Globalization.Democracy.International Political Economy.Governance and Government.Political Theory.Development and Social Change.Globalization.321.8Haas Michaelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut248521BOOK9910338020103321Why Democracies Flounder and Fail2545749UNINA