Beasts and gods : how democracy changed its meaning and lost its purpose /
An extraordinary historical, political and philosophical work that is set to not only reconfigure our understanding of democracy, but to challenge the individualistic basis of the modern liberal politics.
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| 语言: | 英语 |
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London :
Zed Books,
2015.
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| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1093924 |
书本目录:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Beasts and Gods
- Introduction: What Is Democracy?
- Part I
- 1: Democracy in Athens: People Power is Born
- How Athenian Democracy Worked
- Random Power: The Key to Democratic Success in Athens
- 2: The Myth of Representation
- First-Past-the-Post: The Winner Takes It All
- Other Electoral Systems
- Modern Democracy as Symbolic Democracy
- 3: Buying and Selling Elections
- The High Cost of Campaigning
- You Get What You Pay for: The Vicious Circle of Political Donations and Government Action
- A Fistful of Euros: Buying Irish Local Elections
- Representative Democracy: Second Place is the First Loser
- Why Referenda Fail
- Why Regulation Fails
- Elections: The Perfect Habitat for Manipulation
- 4: Participation: Bought In or Locked Out?
- The Struggle to Participate in Modern Democracy
- Participation in Modern Democracy: Running to Stand Still
- The Athenian View on Participation
- Different But (More) Equal: Decision-Making in Athens
- From Ancient Duty to Modern Privilege
- 5: Modern Democracy and the International System: A Perfect Storm
- The United Nations
- The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund
- At the International Casino the House Always Wins
- 6: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Civil Society Chimera
- The Nature of Modern NGOs: Charity Begins in the Boardroom
- The Dark Underbelly of NGO Lobbying: Roundtables, Drugs and Lots of Cash
- Representative Democracy and the International System: Fertile Ground for Oligarchy
- 7: How Did Things Get to Be This Way? The Roman Republican System and the Founding Fathers of America
- Roman Politics: Déjà Vu
- All Sizzle and No Steak: The Roman System Rots at the Core.
- Forgotten Fathers: Anti-Federalists, Republicans and the Battle for the US Constitution
- Part II
- 8: The Way Forward: Digital Democracy
- The Long-Term Dangers of Electoral Democracy
- Why International Power Cannot Fix Democracy
- Digital Democracy Takes Off: Citizens' Budgets and Crowdsourced Constitutions
- The Next Frontier: Online Decisions with Loomio and DemocracyOS
- 9: Disinformed is Disenfranchised: Why Taming Mass Media is a Necessary Step Towards Democracy
- The Medium and the Message: How Communication Methods Affect Decision-Making
- Using Mass Media to Guide Public Discourse
- The Meaning of Mass Media for Democracy
- Battlefield Internet: How Many Soldiers Does It Take to Run a Facebook Account?
- Reclaiming the Narrative by Funding Massive Participation Instead of Mass Media
- Mass Media: The Single Biggest Threat to Democracy
- 10: Democracy and Dissent: The Balance Between Individual and Community
- The Truth about Individual Rights in Athens
- Fact is Stranger than Fiction: The Extraordinary Trial of Socrates
- Protecting Democracy from Dissenters
- A Fragile Balance: The Economy, the Rule of Law and Democracy
- Rebalancing the Economy Today
- The Old Bugbear: Tyranny of the Majority
- Community and the Individual: Yin and Yang
- 11: Direct Democracy Today: Cutting the Gordian Knot
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.