Hyperdemocracy / Stephen Welch
- Bib ID:
- 6391927
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Welch, Stephen, author
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- xiii, 217 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
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- 0230341144
- 9780230341142
- Summary:
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"What is the future of democracy? Is it steadily improving in scope, depth, and accountability? Or is it being marginalized by economic forces? Or - in a view not very often heard - has it already progressed too far? This book argues that none of these assessments is right, and instead that democracy is becoming 'hyper.' An increasingly well-educated citizenry and freer flow of information contribute to the intensification of democracy, but at the same time begin to impede decision-making by contesting more and more of the cognitive preconditions that decision-making rests upon. Under hyperdemocracy, democracy begins to undermine itself. This book applies the idea of 'reflexive modernization' to democratic theory, setting out a new perspective on the challenges democracy faces"--
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note:
- Introduction: The Idea of Hyperdemocracy * The Constitutive Preconditions of Democracy * The Democracy-Knowledge Nexus * Reflexive Modernization and the Technodemocratic State * Symptoms of Hyperdemocracy * Conclusion: The Concept and Implications of Hyperdemocracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Democracy
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2013
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