Kenneth Good

Trust in the Capacities of the People, Distrust in Elites

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Democratization is conceived as an unending struggle by the poor majority against the small elite of wealth, status, and power. This book is a critical, comparative, and global approach to the study of democratization and the participants who bring the processes and actual struggles alive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781498502436
• ISBN-10: 1498502431
• Artikelnr.: 41313997

Autorenporträt

By Kenneth Good

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. Democratization in Athens: Participatory Democracy
as a Dual Process of Empowering the People and Controlling Elites Chapter
2. Democratization in Britain: A Long, Repeated and Incomplete Aspiration
Chapter 3. Democratization in South Africa: The People versus a Militarist,
Predominant Ethno-Nationalist Elite. Chapter 4. Democracy in the Capitalist
Heartlands: Alienation and Dysfunctionalities Chapter 5. Democratization in
Europe and North Africa: Democracy Regains Its Revolutionary
Potentialities. Chapter 6. Democratization in South Africa in 21st Century:
The Potentialities of the Organized Urban Poor and the Hostility of a
Factionalized and Corrupt ANC Conclusion