Trust in the capacities of the people, distrust in elites /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Good, Kenneth, 1933
Published: Lexington Books,
Publisher Address: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781498502436 (cloth) :
1498502431 (cloth)
Index Number: JC421
CLC: D082
Call Number: D082/G646-1
Contents: Athenian participatory democracy :empowering the people and controlling elites -- Democratization in Britain : a long and repeated aspiration -- Democratization in South Africa : the people versus a militarist, predominant, ethno-nationalist elite -- Democracy in the capitalist heartlands : alienation and dysfunctionalities -- Democratization from Portugal to Poland, 1970s-1990s, and in Tunisia and Egypt since 2010 -- Democratization in South Africa: a failing ANC and a determined autonomous movement of the poor.