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Democracy and globalization: anger, fear, and hope

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Routledge 2020 LondonDescription: viii, 163 p. : ill. Includes bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 9780367461928
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 C6D3
Summary: As democracy is disrupted by globalization, the solution is to globalize democracy. This book explores the causes of the current crisis of democracy and advocates new ways for more representative, effective, and accountable governance in an interdependent world. Part 1 analyzes the split of the middle class and the subsequent political polarization which underlies people’s dissatisfaction with the way democracy works in developed countries. It also addresses the role of political emotions, including disappointments about unmet expectations, anger incited from opposition candidates, fear induced from government, and hope wrapping up new proposals for reform and change. In Part 2, the authors argue that a more effective governance would require reallocations of power at local, national, continental and global levels with innovative combinations of direct democracy, representative government, and rule by experts. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, international relations, political economy and democratic theory, as well as general readers interested in politics and current events. routledge.com/Democracy-and-Globalization-Anger-Fear-and-Hope/Colomer-Beale/p/book/9780367461928
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The crisis and the future of democracy

Part 1: THE GREAT DISRUPTION: ANGER AND FEAR

1. It is not about development, but effectiveness
2. Less bourgeoisie, less democracY
3. The split of the middle class
4. Nationalists against the European Union
5. Make America divided again
6. India, Indonesia: poor but delivering

Part 2: THE GLOBAL FUTURE: HOPE

7. High effectiveness requires multiple governments
8. Local government thrives in an open world
9. National democracy needs multi-party cooperation
10. Continental unions prosper: America, India, Europe
11. Global institutions prefigure a world government
12. There will be more democracies, but it may take a while
Conclusion: Should we still call it “democracy”?

As democracy is disrupted by globalization, the solution is to globalize democracy. This book explores the causes of the current crisis of democracy and advocates new ways for more representative, effective, and accountable governance in an interdependent world.
Part 1 analyzes the split of the middle class and the subsequent political polarization which underlies people’s dissatisfaction with the way democracy works in developed countries. It also addresses the role of political emotions, including disappointments about unmet expectations, anger incited from opposition candidates, fear induced from government, and hope wrapping up new proposals for reform and change. In Part 2, the authors argue that a more effective governance would require reallocations of power at local, national, continental and global levels with innovative combinations of direct democracy, representative government, and rule by experts.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, international relations, political economy and democratic theory, as well as general readers interested in politics and current events.

routledge.com/Democracy-and-Globalization-Anger-Fear-and-Hope/Colomer-Beale/p/book/9780367461928

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