Robert Hefner

Democratic Civility

The History and Cross Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Democratic Civility examines the core requirements necessary to make democracy work. Subtly interweaving case studies and theoretical reflection, Hefner et al. examine the ideals, culture, development, and organization of civil democracy. Against a historical background, they consider today's challenges to democracy, asking whether international politics will lead to a clash of civilizations, or whether civil and democratic ideas are realizable in a multicultural world. Essays by Adam B. Seligman, Robert Wuthnow, Brigitte Berger, and Anton C. Zijderveld address subjects germane to the "culture wars" controversy in Western countries. Daniel Chirot, Jose Casanova, Robert P. Weller, and S. Gordon Redding examine the prospects for democracy in non-Western, post-communist societies, in particular Chinese society and the Muslim world. Hefner's highly readable volume reaches the core of the ongoing debate between Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and Francis Fukuyama's The End of History -- whether liberal democratic values are generalizable to non-Western societies, or realizable only in the West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 165mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781560003649
• ISBN-10: 1560003642
• Artikelnr.: 21464327

Autorenporträt

Robert Hefner

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. On the History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a
Democratic Ideal Part 1: Western Genealogies 2. Genealogies of Civility 3.
Between Public and Private: Towards a Sociology of Civil Society 4. A
Reasonable Role for Religion? Moral Practices, Civic Participation, and
Market Behavior 5. The Social Roots of Prosperity and Liberty 6. Civil
Society, Pillarization, and the Welfare State Part 2: Comparative
Possibilities 7. Is Civil Society Enough? Comparing Romania and the
American South 8. Between Nation and Civil Society: Ethnolinguistic and
Religious Pluralism in Independent Ukraine 9. Horizontal Ties and Civil
Institutions in Chinese Societies 10. The Function of Business-Related
Reciprocity in Chinese Non-Civil Societies 11. Cohabitation? Islamist and
Secular Groups in Modern Turkey 12. A Muslim Civil Society? Indonesian
Reflections on the Conditions of Its Possibility