Trust in the capacities of the people, distrust in elites
By: Kenneth Good
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781498502436
Subjects: Democratization; Elite (Social sciences); Case studies; Legitimacy of governments; Political activity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Democratization in Athens : participatory democracy as a dual process of empowering the people and controlling elites; title: Democratization in Britain : a long, repeated and incomplete aspiration; title: Democratization in South Africa : the people versus a militarist, predominant ethno-nationalist elite; title: Democracy in the capitalist heartlands : alienation and dysfunctionalities; title: Democratization in Europe and North Africa : democracy regains its revolutionary potentialities; title: Democratization in South Africa in 21st century : the potentialities of the organized urban poor and the hostility of a factionalized and corrupt ANC.