Danilo Zolo

Democracy and Complexity

A Realist Approach

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This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory. Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies represents a fundamental challenge to the basic assumptions of the Western democratic tradition and calls for a reformulation of some of the key questions of political theory. Zolo maintains that, as modern societies become more complex and more involved in the `information revolution', they are subjected to new and unprecedented forms of evolutionary stress - as manifested, for instance, in the growing autonomy and power of political parties, and in new kinds of political communication which create… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7456-7847-4
EAN: 9780745678474
Produktnummer: 16382589
Verlag: Wiley
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 214 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 18'398 KB

Über den Autor

Danilo Zolo was previously Associate Professor at the University of Florence. He is the author of many books and more than 50 essays concerning political philosophy, epistemology of the social sciences, system theory and the theory of social complexity.