LEADER 00000cam a22016337i 4500 001 0jxtcctrx6j9054z 008 240129t20232023enk||||||b||||001 0|eng|c 020 9781032218168 041 eng 082 00 321.8|223/eng/20230111 092 0 321|bengelska 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
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