Power and humility, the future of monitory democracy, John Keane
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Power and humility, the future of monitory democracy, John Keane
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eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Power and humility
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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1051773301
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John Keane
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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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the future of monitory democracy
Summary
Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy. The book shows why the current literature on democracy is failing to make sense of many intellectual puzzles and new political trends. It probes a wide range of themes, from the growth of cross-border institutions and capitalist market failures to the greening of democracy, the dignity of children and the anti-democratic effects of everyday fear, violence and bigotry. Keane develops the idea of 'monitory democracy' to show why periodic free and fair elections are losing their democratic centrality; and why the ongoing struggles by citizens and their representatives, in a multiplicity of global settings, to humble the high and mighty and deal with the dangers of arbitrary power, force us to rethink what we mean by democracy and why it remains a universal ideal.--, Provided by publisher
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