Thinking democracy now
Subtitle: between innovation and regression
By: edited by Nadia Urbinati
Edition: Prima edizione.
Series: Annali / Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli -- 53 (2019); Annali (Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli) -- anno 53o.
Publisher: Feltrinelli Editore
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Milano
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9788807990748
Subjects: Democracy; Moral and ethical aspects; Representative government and representation
Description: "Ten years after the publication of Feltrinelli 'Annale' La democrazia di fronte allo Stato, edited by Alessandro Pizzorno (2010), far-reaching events have led us to go back to the risks and challenges modern democracies are facing. This new volume of the 'Annali', Thinking Democracy Now: Between Innovation and Regression, studies the transformations affecting contemporary democracies from the perspective of their conflicting potentials. The chapters in the book develop around the following paradox: today democracy enjoys such an undisputed hegemony that even regimes threatening it do so in its very name and with the promise of expanding rather than demoting it. Reconstructed in the aftermath of the Second World War and mass dictatorships, constitutional democracy is a complex political system with no predetermined goal other than its own reproduction in social and national conditions that vary, rendering the political game permanently open to uneven and risky results. This volume explores several of these challenging conditions, both in the social and political spheres, through several countries and continents. With contributions from prominent scholars, it proposes a rich critical analysis of the most recent transformations of democratic processes, their regressive trends as well as opportunities for innovation, set against a global geopolitical landscape"--Back cover.
Notes: Collected essays.

The series is an annual.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crisis, challenges, or transformation of democracy?  -- Wolfgang Merkel; title: Democracy and a changing public sphere  -- Jan-Werner Müller; title: Democracy and the division of labor: a blind spot in political philosophy  -- Axel Honneth; title: Democracy and the poor  -- Andreas Kalyvas; title: The populist transformation of democracy  -- Nadia Urbinati; title: The principles of open democracy  -- Hélène Landemore; title: Participatory democracy and deliberative democracy  -- Antonio Floridia; title: Recalling representatives  -- Jonathan White and Lea Ypi; title: The territorial mentality and the future of democracy  -- John Keane; title: Human rights, identity politics and the issue of state borders  -- Seyla Benhabib; title: Homo italicus orbánicus  -- Michele Battini; title: The demoicratic reconnection of the EU  -- Richard Bellamy; title: Democracy-eroding multilateralism in the EU?  -- Turkuler Isiksel; title: The role of the Chinese model in the West's crisis of self-confidence  -- Andrew J. Nathan; title: Democracy and the "non-nation-state"  -- Sudipta Kaviraj; title: The nature of populist democracy: a Latin American perspective  -- Enrique Peruzzotti; title: The two American populisms, and the populism that isn't  -- Arnaldo Testi; title: The perilous state of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa  -- Anna Maria Gentili; title: Vice or virtue? On social conflict in the age of postdemocracy -- Luca Baldissara.