R. Glassman

The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

High technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks. It has engendered new classes - technocrats, bureaucrats, service and office workers - who will impact the structure and values of society. The question most central for us is that of the survival of democracy on this new base. Will the New Middle Class become the carrying class for a modern form of democracy utilizing the sophisticated communications technology, or will democracy decline under the weight of the managerial and technocratic strata essential to the functioning of the modern economic and political institutions?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-68305-7
• 1997
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 18mm
• ISBN-13: 9780333683057
• ISBN-10: 0333683056
• Artikelnr.: 44373156

Autorenporträt

RONALD M. GLASSMAN

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Industrial Capitalism and Legal Representative Democracy: The End of History? - PART 1: LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY ON A HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL CAPITALIST BASE - High Technology Industrial Capitalism as a New Mode of Production - Three Models of High Technology Industrial Capitalism - The New Class Structure Engendered by the High Technology Economy - PART 2: THE POLIS ANALOGY: THE DEMOCRATIC POTENTIALITIES OF THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS -The New Middle Class as an Aristotelian Mediating Class - The New Middle Class and Law - Maintaining the Middle Class Majority on a High Technology Capitalist Base - PART 3: THE EMPIRE ANALOGY: BUREAUCRACY AGAINST DEMOCRACY - Bureaucracy as a Despotic System of Domination - Does the Empire Analogy Hold, or are Critical Differences Emerging - Political Culture Against Democracy - PART 4: PARTICIPATION, POWER LIMITATION, LAW, AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOCRATIC-BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETY - The Extension of Legal Authority over Public and Private Bureaucracies - Mass Mediated Direct Democracy: Television Town Meetings and Computer Referenda: Civil Society Through a Lens - Education for Democracy in a High Technology Mass Media World Culture - Index