Twenty-first Century DemocracyTopics in this collection of essays range from a utopian-style foray into possible structures for democratic governance at the global level to a Hobbesian analysis of the ongoing challenges that democratic theory faces; from an assertion of the importance of social and economic equality to a recognition of the limits of solidarity in the real world of pluralistic and divided societies in which we live; from identification with the cosmopolitan and the international to a defence of the national and the local; from a predilection for direct democracy and the lost community of republican theory, past and present, to a recognition of the fairly circumscribed ways in which these can ultimately be expressed in our day. In spite of the challenges facing global democracy, Resnick looks to the next millennium with renewed hope for the democratic project. |
Contents
TwentyFirst Century Democracy or Cleisthenes | 13 |
Isonomía Isegoría Isomoiría and Democracy at the Global | 29 |
The Challenge to Democratic | 47 |
Neoconservatism and Beyond | 63 |
Can Direct Democracy Coexist with the Modern State? | 75 |
Whatever Happened to Civil Society? | 97 |
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