Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the
dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues
leading political thinker John Keane. He offers an imaginative,
radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of
democracy. The book shows why the current literature on democracy
is failing to make sense of many intellectual puzzles and new
political trends. It probes a wide range of themes, from the growth
of cross-border institutions and capitalist market failures to the
greening of democracy, the dignity of children and the
anti-democratic effects of everyday fear, violence and bigotry.
Keane develops the idea of 'monitory democracy' to show why
periodic free and fair elections are losing their democratic
centrality; and why the ongoing struggles by citizens and their
representatives, in a multiplicity of global settings, to humble
the high and mighty and deal with the dangers of arbitrary power,
force us to rethink what we mean by democracy and why it remains a
universal ideal.
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