Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 democratization 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.
Title: The Rise And Decline Of Modern Democracy
Author(s): Kingsbury Damien (Deakin University Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032218168
Pages: 246 Pages
Publication Date: 4/7/2023
Series: Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics
Category: Political Parties