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Why Democracies Flounder and Fail : Remedying Mass Society Politics by Michael Haas; SpringerLink (Online service) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore’s totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock, and there is a global democracy deficit, solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of government. The book demonstrates how mass society politics operates, with intermediate institutions of civil society (media, pressure groups, political parties) no longer transmitting the will of the people to government but instead are concerned with corporate interests and have developed oligarchical mindsets. Rather than micro-remedy bandaids, the author focuses on the need to transform governing philosophies from pragmatic to humanistic solutions. ** From the Back Cover Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore’s totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock, and there is a global democracy deficit, solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of go

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Author

Michael Haas; SpringerLink (Online service)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319740706

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, History