Description: In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian state? If democracy is to survive in the post-communist world, Touraine argues, it must accomplish two urgent goals: It must somehow protect the power of the nation-state at the same time as it limits that power (for only the state has sufficient means to counterbalance the global corporate wielders of money and information); and it must reconcile social diversity with social unity and individual liberty with integration.
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Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy
Publication Name: What Is Democracy?
Item Length: 9 in
Publisher: Westview Press
Subject: General, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Publication Year: 1997
Type: Textbook
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.6 in
Author: Alain. Touraine
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Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
