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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Touraine, Alain. What is democracy? Boulder, CO : WestviewPress, 1997 (OCoLC)606108384 Online version: Touraine, Alain. What is democracy? Boulder, CO : WestviewPress, 1997 (OCoLC)609112055 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alain Touraine |
| ISBN: | 0813327067 9780813327068 0813327075 9780813327075 |
| OCLC Number: | 36029741 |
| Description: | ix, 224 p. ; 23 cm. |
| 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? |
| Other Titles: | Qu'est-ce-que la démocratie? |
| Responsibility: | Alain Touraine ; translated by David Macey. |
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Abstract:
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 merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian state? If democracy is to survive in the post-communist world, Touraine argues, it must accomplish two urgent goals: It must somehow protect the power of the nation-state at the same time as it limits that power (for only the state has sufficient means to counterbalance the global corporate wielders of money and information); and it must reconcile social diversity with social unity and individual liberty with integration.
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