Democracy and complexity : a realist approach

書誌事項

Democracy and complexity : a realist approach

Danilo Zolo ; translated from the Italian by David McKie

Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 1992

  • : hard
  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Complessità e democrazia

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注記

Bibliography: p. [185]-197

Includes index

Translation of: Complessità e democrazia

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hard ISBN 9780745606750

内容説明

Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies represents a fundamental challenge to the basic assumptions of the western democratic tradition and calls for a reformulation of some of the key questions of political theory. The author maintains that, as modern societies become more complex and more involved in the "information revolution", they are subjected to new and unprecedented forms of evolutionary stress - as manifested, for instance, in the growing autonomy and power of political parties and in new kinds of political communication which create and sustain the fiction of consensus. These forms of stress have become so serious that they threaten to undermine some of the values traditionally associated with democracy, such as the rationality and autonomy of the individual and the visibility and accountability of power.

目次

  • Some general assumptions
  • complexity and political theory
  • complexity and democratic theory
  • the evolutionary risks of democracy
  • the principality of communication
  • conclusion - toward a realist theory of democracy.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780745610955

内容説明

This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory. Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies represents a fundamental challenge to the basic assumptions of the Western democratic tradition and calls for a reformulation of some of the key questions of political theory. Zolo maintains that, as modern societies become more complex and more involved in the `information revolution', they are subjected to new and unprecedented forms of evolutionary stress - as manifested, for instance, in the growing autonomy and power of political parties, and in new kinds of political communication which create and sustain the fiction of consensus. These forms of stress have become so serious that they threaten to undermine some of the values traditionally associated with democracy, such as the rationality and autonomy of the individual, and the visibility and accountability of power.

目次

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Some General Assumptions. 2. Complexity and Political Theory. 3. Complexity and Democratic Theory. 4. The Evolutionary Risks of Democracy. 5. The Principality of Communication. 6. Conclusion: Toward a Realist Theory of Democracy. Select Bibliography. Index of Subjects. Index of Names.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA18589113
  • ISBN
    • 074560675X
    • 0745610951
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    ita
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 202 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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