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Chargement... Democracy and Complexity: A Realist Approachpar Danilo Zolo
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. It didn't really become clear to me what the author was trying to say in this book. He does occasionally point out some interesting dilemmas in modern democracy, for instance when he writes that society is becoming increasingly complex while democratic power can remain effective only if it can reduce that complexity. However, his contribution to solving these dilemmas is just confusing. He wastes a lot of space on discussing the ideas of earlier theorists and hides his own theories behind a veil of unclear language. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory. Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies represents a fundamental challenge to the basic assumptions of the Western democratic tradition and calls for a reformulation of some of the key questions of political theory. Zolo maintains that, as modern societies become more complex and more involved in the `information revolution', they are subjected to new and unprecedented forms of evolutionary stress - as manifested, for instance, in the growing autonomy and power of political parties, and in new kinds of political communication which create and sustain the fiction of consensus. These forms of stress have become so serious that they threaten to undermine some of the values traditionally associated with democracy, such as the rationality and autonomy of the individual, and the visibility and accountability of power. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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