Democracy and Complexity: A Realist Approach - Couverture rigide

Zolo, Danilo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 074560675X ISBN 13 : 9780745606750

Editeur : Polity Press, 1992

Synopsis

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. The author 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074560675X
• ISBN 13: 9780745606750
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible