What is democracy?
In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined mere...
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Boulder, Colo.
Westview Press
1997
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A New Idea
- 2. Human Rights, Representation, and Citizenship
- 3. Limitations on Power
- 4. Representative Political Actors
- 5. Citizenship
- 6. Republicans and Liberals
- 7. Opening Up a Public Space
- 8. The Politics of the Subject
- 9. Recomposing the World
- 10. Modernization or Development?
- 11. Transforming Old into New
- 12. Democratization in the East and the South?