Rethinking Democracy

The New Model of Democracy for the New Democratic Era

Hanno Scholtz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 273 Seiten

2025
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-182567-0 (ISBN)

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De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences provides a platform for disseminating topical analyses of current events, showcasing new theoretical, empirical or applied research across the social sciences and related fields. Through engaging storytelling and in-depth analysis, it presents new work that appeals to a wide audience, and engages with issues of major public interest, highlighting the implications for both policy and professional practice.

The world is in crisis. Wars erupt, inequality is widening, climate breakdown accelerates. Polarization deepens, and populists feed on it. The world has changed. The old model of democracy isn't working any more.

This book argues that good societies always build on empowering individuals. Postwar democracy did so based on shared identities and limited interdependence. A new model of democracy must embrace our new individualized and interconnected world. Rethinking Democracy reinvents it that way.

Hanno Scholtz's Civil Democracy concept shifts the focus from elite competition to empowering citizens as decision-makers. It offers a bold new vision and strategy for globally rebuilding democracy for the 21^st century.

Hanno Scholtz, PD Dr. rer. pol., is a political scientist and sociologist teaching at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg (CH). His work on the interaction of societies and their institutions ranges from vote-splitting over democratization to the contemporary polycrisis.

"This book prehends the current polycrisis in world historical perspective. It redesigns institutions to provide democratic efficacy by facilitating individual participation in a federated network of decision-making and sees an opportunity to implement a global democracy based on global citizenship. All hands on board for the struggle."

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Prof. Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, founding editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research

"A bold, brilliant blueprint for saving and improving democracy. Scholtz blends history, theory, and innovation into an urgent call-returning power to the people to rebuild freedom, unity, and resilience for a new era."

Dora Bender, Executive Director, Democracy & Federalism Hub

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences ; 62
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w ill., 5 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Schlagworte	democracy crisis • Institutions • polarization • Populism • Post-democracy
ISBN-10	3-11-182567-1 / 3111825671
ISBN-13	978-3-11-182567-0 / 9783111825670
Zustand	Neuware