Titlebook: Why Democracies Flounder and Fail; Remedying Mass Socie Michael Haas Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 Democra

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Democracy: Components and Typesbeginning with the origins of the term with Plato and Aristotle. The components of democracy are then identified historically as constitutions, representative legislatures, civil societies, selection of executives, extension of the franchise, secret ballots, referenda, civil and political rights, an

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Mass Society Paradigmment and the masses. The present chapter traces the origins of democracy and how the Mass Society Paradigm developed from Durkheim’s evidence that industrialization produced alienated factory workers, anthropological studies of elites in small American towns, Mills’s observation that colluding elite

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Immobilism in the French Fourth Republicblic that parliamentarians were unable to achieve productive or stable governments. The resulting immobilism prompted a coup, which led to a new constitution to give more power to the executive president. There are many parallels with the immobilism of the current American political system, as descr

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Global Mass Society normal democratic functioning almost impossible. Global gridlock has resulted from the same issues that plague democracies today. Although transnational civil society has tried to achieve a degree of democratic global governance, the result mostly has been to reinforce the global power structure.

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Book 2019failed, 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 ins

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