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Autore: | Fuller Roslyn |
Titolo: | Beasts and Gods : how democracy changed its meaning and lost its purpose / / Roslyn Fuller |
Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (426 p.) |
Disciplina: | 321.8 |
Soggetto topico: | Democracy |
Democracy - History | |
Political structures: democracy | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front 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: Déjà Vu -- All Sizzle and No Steak: The Roman System Rots at the Core. |
Forgotten 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. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | An 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Beasts and Gods |
ISBN: | 1-350-21860-X |
1-78360-544-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814347803321 |
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