Rupture
Subtitle: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781509531998
Subjects: Democracy; Liberalism; Spain, politics and government; Europe, politics and government; United states, politics and government
Description: "Trump, Brexit, the demise of traditional political parties in Europe: all these events show that the majority of citizens globally do not trust their political representatives and institutions. In this short book, Manuel Castells surveys a profound crisis in the democratic model that has been the cornerstone of stability and civility for 50 years"--