The Condition of Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Volume 1: Neoliberal Politics and Sociological Perspectives
Redaktion: Mackert, Jürgen; Turner, Bryan S.; Wolf, Hannah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection addresses the preconditions of democratic rule, the state this form of governance is in, and the changing ways in which citizens can (still) act as the sovereign in liberal democratic societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000401851
• Artikelnr.: 61915305

Autorenporträt

Jürgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the 'Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity' at Potsdam University, Germany. His research interests include sociology of citizenship, political economy, closure theory, and collective violence. Recent publication: Social life as collective struggle: Closure theory and the problem of solidarity, SOZIALPOLITIK.CH (2021). Hannah Wolf is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for General Sociology at the University of Potsdam, and associate member at the DFG-collaborative research centre "Re-Figuration of Spaces". Her research interests include urban sociology, theories of space and place, and citizenship studies. Latest publication: Am Ende der Globalisierung: Über die Refiguration von Räumen (ed. with Martina Löw, Volkan Sayman and, Jona Schwerer), 2021, transcript. Bryan S. Turner is Research Professor of Sociology at the Australian Catholic University (Sydney), Emeritus Professor at the Graduate Center CUNY, Honorary Max Planck Professor at Potsdam University, Germany, and Research Fellow at the Edward Cadbury Center, University of Birmingham, UK. He holds a Cambridge Litt.D. In 2020 with Rob Stones he published 'Successful Societies: Decision-making and the quality of attentiveness', British Journal of Sociology, 71(1), 183-202.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Waves of Democracy Part 1: Neoliberalism and the Meltdown of
Democratic Life 1. Enchaining Democracy: The Now-Transnational Project of
the US Corporate Libertarian Right 2. Ordoliberalism, Authoritarianism, and
Democracy 3. Toward a Predistributive Democracy: Diagnosing Oligarchy,
Dedemocratization, and the Deceits of Market Justice 4. The Politics of
Bailing-Out the Rich: The Role of 'Systemic Importance' Within the European
Banking Union 5. Democratization or Politicization? The Changing Face of
Political-Economic Expertise in European Expert Groups, 1966-2017 Part 2:
Sociological Perspectives on Liberal Democracy 6. The Ideology of
Anti-Populism and the Administrative State 7. Roman Catholicism and
Democracy: Internal Conservatism and External Liberalism? 8. Breaking Bad:
The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Digital Culture