Paul Hirst, B. Paul Hirst of Social Theory

From Statism To Pluralism

Democracy, Civil Society And Global Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume traces Paul Hirst's approach to contemporary politics, an approach that reasons from real political problems rather than abstract concepts, arguing for a "third way" between state socialism and "laissez- faire" capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780415516136
• ISBN-10: 0415516137
• Artikelnr.: 57051893

Autorenporträt

Paul Hirst is Professor of Social Theory, at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of fourteen books including Pre-capitalist modes of production (1975, with Barry Hin dess), Marxism and historical uniting (1985), After Thatcherf (1989), Associative democracy (1993), and Globalization in question (1996, with Grahame Thompson). His work has been translated into German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 1 Democracy and associative governance
Chapter 2 Associative democracy
Chapter 3 Associational democracy
Chapter 4 From statism to pluralism
Chapter 5 Democracy
Part 2 Democracy and civil society
Chapter 6 Quangos and democratic government
Chapter 7 Democracy and civil society
Chapter 8 Can the Conservatives reinvent civil society?
Chapter 9 Sidestepping the state
Part 3 Global pressures and democratic governance
Chapter 10 The state, civil society and the collapse of soviet communism
Chapter 11 Security challenges in postcommunist Europe
Chapter 12 Endism - Francis Fukuyama
Chapter 13 The myth of globalization
Chapter 14 The international origins of national sovereignty
Chapter 15 Why the national still matters