Kenneth Good

Trust in the Capacities of the People, Distrust in Elites

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Democratization is conceived as an unending struggle by the poor majority against the small elite of wealth, status, and power. This book is a critical, comparative, and global approach to the study of democratization and the participants who bring the processes and actual struggles alive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781498502436
• ISBN-10: 1498502431
• Artikelnr.: 41313997

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Good is adjunct professor in global studies at RMIT University and visiting professor in political and international studies at Rhodes University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. Democratization in Athens: Participatory Democracy
as a Dual Process of Empowering the People and Controlling Elites Chapter
2. Democratization in Britain: A Long, Repeated and Incomplete Aspiration
Chapter 3. Democratization in South Africa: The People versus a Militarist,
Predominant Ethno-Nationalist Elite. Chapter 4. Democracy in the Capitalist
Heartlands: Alienation and Dysfunctionalities Chapter 5. Democratization in
Europe and North Africa: Democracy Regains Its Revolutionary
Potentialities. Chapter 6. Democratization in South Africa in 21st Century:
The Potentialities of the Organized Urban Poor and the Hostility of a
Factionalized and Corrupt ANC Conclusion