03297nam 22006135 450 991080557800332120251009095949.09783031523076303152307510.1007/978-3-031-52307-6(MiAaPQ)EBC31084732(Au-PeEL)EBL31084732(OCoLC)1419869279(CKB)30111490500041(DE-He213)978-3-031-52307-6(EXLCZ)993011149050004120240122d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWestern Elites and Societies in Twenty-First Century Politics Avoiding Calamity /by John Higley1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (104 pages)Print version: Higley, John Western Elites and Societies in Twenty-First Century Politics Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031523069 1. Avoiding Calamity -- 2. Western Elites and Populists -- 3. Representative Government’s Prospects -- 4. Democracy as Rationalization and Panacea -- 5. Anticipations of Parousia in Western Societies -- 6. Intellectual Elites and Realities of Work -- 7. Plutocracy and Demagogy in a Weak State -- 8. The Democracy Ideal Reconsidered.This book focuses on threats to the continued viability of Western institutions and practices for which it is not easy to conceive remedies consistent with the Western tradition. Higley argues that structural difficulties in postindustrial societies, particularly the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere, threatened troubles that political manipulation by elites might not be sufficient to contain or resolve. Struggling against lethal climate change, politically explosive waves of migrants and refugees, the likelihood of further pandemics, populist nationalism, and destabilizing effects of social media, elites must consider new demographic, economic, social, political, and international policies. Higley offers a powerful and provocative analysis of the elite’s ability to sustain Western societies in their current social and political forms. John Higley is Emeritus Professor of Government & Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, USA.AmericaPolitics and governmentPolitical sociologyEuropePolitics and governmentPolitical leadershipAmerican PoliticsPolitical SociologyEuropean PoliticsPolitical LeadershipAmericaPolitics and government.Political sociology.EuropePolitics and government.Political leadership.American Politics.Political Sociology.European Politics.Political Leadership.305.52Higley John1090271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910805578003321Western Elites and Societies in Twenty-First Century Politics3883273UNINA00721nam0 2200265 450 991103797990332120251111114538.0978144194496220251111d2010---- km y0itay50 baengUSa 001yyEngineering the guitartheoty and practiceRichard Mark FrenchUSASpringer2010cVIII, 266 p.ill.23 cmmusica78022itaFrenchRichard Mark1776181ITUNINAREICATUNIMARCBK9911037979903321780-FRE-1338/2025SC1SC1Engineering the guitar4453312UNINA