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100 1  Kingsbury, Damien|4aut 
245 14 The rise and decline of modern democracy /|cDamien 
       Kingsbury 
264  1 Abingdon, Oxon ;|aNew York, NY :|bRoutledge, Taylor & 
       Francis Group,|c2023 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    xv, 245 pages|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Routledge studies in global and transnational politics 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    "The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the 
       rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline 
       of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in 
       particular since the 'third wave' of democratisation from 
       the 1990s. Democracy is in global decline. Fewer countries
       are democratic and fewer people, globally, live in 
       substantive democracies. Autocracy is now the dominant 
       political form and the future looks, at best, challenging 
       for the retention of such democracies that remain. As they
       did a century ago, nationalism and populism have again 
       reared their ugly heads, and more people are claiming that
       democracy no longer addresses their most compelling needs 
       or interests. This book examines what democracy is and the
       circumstances that allowed - even encouraged - it to 
       arise. Democracy has been a product of a need to find a 
       political model that mediates between competing interests,
       building on conducive conditions. However, there have 
       since been fundamental changes to those conditions, 
       imbalances within democratic countries and between 
       countries, that have diminished the strength of the 
       democratic proposition. The question now arises as to 
       whether democracy can continue as a matter of political 
       will. Challengers to democracy, from the radical Right in 
       developed countries to populist autocracy and state-
       centred authoritarianism in developing countries, have 
       increasingly shown this may not be the case. Democracy may
       survive, as this book concludes, but is likely to do so 
       only with more substantial and conscious commitment to the
       democratic project, with recognition of the need to 
       replenish the fertility of the political soil in which 
       democracy grows. This wide-ranging and empirically and 
       theoretically rich book will be of interest to students, 
       scholars and researchers of political science, 
       international relations, history and democracy"--
       |cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Democracy 
650  7 Demokrati|2sao 
650  7 Politiska system|2sao 
650  7 Historia|2sao 
650  7 Statsvetenskap|2sao 
650  7 Politik|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Democracy|2fast 
655  7 History|2fast 
830  0 Routledge studies in global and transnational politics