Why Democracies Flounder and Fail

Rolls out a new theory of democracy and presents reasons why democracies flounder
Exposes how constitutions can facilitate the rise of competitive political parties and meaningful elections

Applies the concept of mass society to the anarchic rise of globalization

Autorentext
Michael Haas is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and political scientist who has taught at several universitiesLondon, Northwestern, Purdue, the University of California (Riverside), the University of Hawaii, and multiple campuses of California State University. The author of more than 50 books, including Asian and Pacific Cooperation, International Relations Theory, and Political Science Revitalized, he now gives public lecturers around the world.

Inhalt

1. Democracy: Components and Types.- 2. Mass Society Paradigm.- 3. Immobilism in the French Fourth Republic.- 4. Singapore's Totalitarian Mass Society.- 5. Gridlock in Washington.- 6. Global Mass Society.- 7. Remedies for the Perils of Mass Society.