Erosion of Democracy - Dhopte, J.
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This book is a first part of the series - DEMOCRACY, a series of three books. Democracy during the last decade has suffered a dramatic decline.The constitutional democracies are being overthrown and there is an increase in the regimes that retain the formal institutional trappings while flouting the norms and values on which constitutional democracies are based.The forces of neo- liberalism are gaining ascendency in the world and the democratic public spheres are confronting a growing crisis.Politics has become an extension of war. The state supported corporate power seeks to reporoduce and…mehr

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This book is a first part of the series - DEMOCRACY, a series of three books. Democracy during the last decade has suffered a dramatic decline.The constitutional democracies are being overthrown and there is an increase in the regimes that retain the formal institutional trappings while flouting the norms and values on which constitutional democracies are based.The forces of neo- liberalism are gaining ascendency in the world and the democratic public spheres are confronting a growing crisis.Politics has become an extension of war. The state supported corporate power seeks to reporoduce and reward an orientation to the world innfused with authoritarian ideas, pracices and principles. Uncivil behaviour by elites and pathological mass communication reinforces each other. There is a public ripe to be polarized and exploited by demagogues and the media manipulators. Thus, any response must involve ordinary citizens, but are they upto the task? If democracy is to have a future, all the various pedagogical apparatuses available must be transformed to support - critical thinking and a public culture capable of exerting a formative educational influence in favour of democratic freedom, justic, equality and fraternity. The author argues that the solutions cannot be found only by strengthening the constitutional institutions, the democracy must also seek to reinvigorate its democratic aspirations. Democracy must be saved and protected to acheive security, stability and prosperity for the entire world.
Autorenporträt
What is called liberty from the control of the State is another name for the dictatorship of the private employer.   Over the last few decades, corporations have lobbied to weaken laws and policies governing antitrust, environmental protections, worker rights and protections, and more-all to further consolidate their own power. This in turn, slows overall economic growth and entrenches economic and social disparities between people. Corporate monopolies harm consumers through practices such as self-preferencing and predatory pricing. They unionize and undermine working people's power. Corporations amassed an ever-expanding set of rights through the courts, going much beyond property rights. Corporate Power has but one reason for being: the maximum possible profit and the maximum possible power. Corporate power has replaced democracy with oligarchy, and it plunders people and the planet.   The author J. Dhopte got a degree in mechanical engineering, diploma in marine engineering and master's in financial management. He had a border-less career in maritime, plastic, service, hospitality and education industries with opportunities to work in various locations around the world. He worked in the Merchant Navy traveling around the world for 10 years. He worked as a Chief Engineer on ships, Chief Engineer in a hotel, and Maintenance Manager in a manufacturing industry.  Currently, he is working as a Professor. His works across multiple disciplines broadly addresses narratives of human experience.