Trust in the capacities of the people, distrust in elites /
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Lexington Books,
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Publisher Address: | Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : |
Publication Dates: | [2014] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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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. |