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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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This volume explores democracy in the 20th century, examining the
triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its
associated cultures in this period. From 1920 democracy became the
hegemonic discourse in political cultures, to the extent that even
its enemies claimed its legacy. The end of empires ushered in an
unprecedented globalization of democratic aspirations. Barriers of
gender and race were gradually removed, and greater equality gave
new meaning to citizenship. Yet, already in 1922 democracy was on
its back foot with the rise of fascism. Even after the latter's
defeat in 1945, liberal democracy died wherever communist democracy
triumphed. The situation changed again from 1989, but democratic
hubris was then checked by the rise of a new enemy-populism. The
paradox is that the century of democracy's triumph was also that of
its near final defeat, while the peace and stability that everybody
desired and many expected as the outcome of the extension of
democracy were, at best, intermittent and geographically limited.
Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: sovereignty;
liberty and the rule of law; the "common good"; economic and social
democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation;
citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism;
democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international
relations; and democratic politics beyond the polis. These ten
different approaches to democracy since 1920 offer a global,
synoptic, and probing exploration of the subject.
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