LEADER 01175nam0-22003371i-450- 001 990001846930403321 005 20081002115707.0 035 $a000184693 035 $aFED01000184693 035 $a(Aleph)000184693FED01 035 $a000184693 100 $a20030910d1902----km-y0itay50------ba 101 0 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $ay-------001yy 200 1 $a<>Stato italiano e la cultura del sughero specialmente nella Sardegna$enotizie comparative sulla cultura e sulle industrie del sughero in Italia ed all'estero e sulla cultura del lino per seme$fItalo Giglioli 210 $aPortici$c[s.n.]$d1902 215 $a58 p.$d26 cm 300 $aEstr. da: Malessere agrario ed alimentare in Italia, cap. 31,1902. 610 0 $aQuercus suber 676 $a634.972 1 700 1$aGiglioli,$bItalo$f<1852-1920>$06228 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gRICA$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a990001846930403321 952 $a60 DONO COMES 8/12$b38265$fFAGBC 952 $a60 MISC. B 64/4$fFAGBC 952 $a60 MISC. B 62/9$fFAGBC 959 $aFAGBC 996 $aStato italiano e la cultura del sughero specialmente nella Sardegna$9415104 997 $aUNINA LEADER 05066nam 2200577 450 001 9910814347803321 005 20210311111955.0 010 $a1-350-21860-X 010 $a1-78360-544-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350218604 035 $a(CKB)3710000000514036 035 $a(EBL)4397413 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397413 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11160989 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL852902 035 $a(OCoLC)928883463 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350218604 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000514036 100 $a20210311h20212015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeasts and Gods $ehow democracy changed its meaning and lost its purpose /$fRoslyn Fuller 210 1$aLondon, England :$cZed Books,$d2015. 210 2$a[London, England] :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (426 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78360-546-4 311 $a1-78360-543-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Beasts and Gods -- Introduction: What Is Democracy? -- Part I -- 1: Democracy in Athens: People Power is Born -- How Athenian Democracy Worked -- Random Power: The Key to Democratic Success in Athens -- 2: The Myth of Representation -- First-Past-the-Post: The Winner Takes It All -- Other Electoral Systems -- Modern Democracy as Symbolic Democracy -- 3: Buying and Selling Elections -- The High Cost of Campaigning -- You Get What You Pay for: The Vicious Circle of Political Donations and Government Action -- A Fistful of Euros: Buying Irish Local Elections -- Representative Democracy: Second Place is the First Loser -- Why Referenda Fail -- Why Regulation Fails -- Elections: The Perfect Habitat for Manipulation -- 4: Participation: Bought In or Locked Out? -- The Struggle to Participate in Modern Democracy -- Participation in Modern Democracy: Running to Stand Still -- The Athenian View on Participation -- Different But (More) Equal: Decision-Making in Athens -- From Ancient Duty to Modern Privilege -- 5: Modern Democracy and the International System: A Perfect Storm -- The United Nations -- The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund -- At the International Casino the House Always Wins -- 6: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Civil Society Chimera -- The Nature of Modern NGOs: Charity Begins in the Boardroom -- The Dark Underbelly of NGO Lobbying: Roundtables, Drugs and Lots of Cash -- Representative Democracy and the International System: Fertile Ground for Oligarchy -- 7: How Did Things Get to Be This Way? The Roman Republican System and the Founding Fathers of America -- Roman Politics: De?ja? Vu -- All Sizzle and No Steak: The Roman System Rots at the Core. 327 $aForgotten Fathers: Anti-Federalists, Republicans and the Battle for the US Constitution -- Part II -- 8: The Way Forward: Digital Democracy -- The Long-Term Dangers of Electoral Democracy -- Why International Power Cannot Fix Democracy -- Digital Democracy Takes Off: Citizens' Budgets and Crowdsourced Constitutions -- The Next Frontier: Online Decisions with Loomio and DemocracyOS -- 9: Disinformed is Disenfranchised: Why Taming Mass Media is a Necessary Step Towards Democracy -- The Medium and the Message: How Communication Methods Affect Decision-Making -- Using Mass Media to Guide Public Discourse -- The Meaning of Mass Media for Democracy -- Battlefield Internet: How Many Soldiers Does It Take to Run a Facebook Account? -- Reclaiming the Narrative by Funding Massive Participation Instead of Mass Media -- Mass Media: The Single Biggest Threat to Democracy -- 10: Democracy and Dissent: The Balance Between Individual and Community -- The Truth about Individual Rights in Athens -- Fact is Stranger than Fiction: The Extraordinary Trial of Socrates -- Protecting Democracy from Dissenters -- A Fragile Balance: The Economy, the Rule of Law and Democracy -- Rebalancing the Economy Today -- The Old Bugbear: Tyranny of the Majority -- Community and the Individual: Yin and Yang -- 11: Direct Democracy Today: Cutting the Gordian Knot -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover. 330 $aAn extraordinary historical, political and philosophical work that is set to not only reconfigure our understanding of democracy, but to challenge the individualistic basis of the modern liberal politics. 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aDemocracy$xHistory 606 $aPolitical structures: democracy$2bicssc 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aDemocracy$xHistory. 615 7$aPolitical structures: democracy 676 $a321.8 700 $aFuller$b Roslyn$01724209 801 0$bN 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814347803321 996 $aBeasts and Gods$94126104 997 $aUNINA