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Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?: Oligarchy, Tyranny, and Ochlocracy in the Age of Global Capitalism

Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?: Oligarchy, Tyranny, and Ochlocracy in the Age of Global Capitalism

Glassman, Ronald M.

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3030768201
ISBN13: 9783030768201
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 6 2021
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book analyzes the many threats to democracy that exist in the 21st century and tries to understand how democracy can survive economic, social and political crises. It focuses on issues of oligarchy, tyranny, totalitarianism, and ochlocracy. It discusses how these forms of governance manifested themselves in ancient and medieval worlds, and how socio-economic transitions in the 21st century have created conditions that increasingly pose similar threats to modern democracy. The author discusses broad transitions in the contemporary world: economic transition to advanced, high technology capitalism; cultural transition from traditional religious and family values to norms focusing on racial equality, gender and transgender equality and liberation, and multiculturalism; also, transition from the traditional religious worldview to rational-scientific worldview, and from religious morality to secular humanist ethics. These taken together undergird the political transition from traditional authority, involving monarchy and aristocracy, to rational-legal authority, involving constitutional law and democratic participation. The book shows, through extensive country discussions, that whenever these transitions become difficult, undemocratic forms of governance may emerge and override democracy.

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