Western Elites and Societies in Twenty-First Century Politics

Avoiding Calamity

John Higley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 99 Seiten

2024 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-52306-9 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on threats to the continued viability of Western institutions and practices for which it is not easy to conceive remedies consistent with the Western tradition. Higley argues that structural difficulties in postindustrial societies, particularly the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere, threatened troubles that political manipulation by elites might not be sufficient to contain or resolve. Struggling against lethal climate change, politically explosive waves of migrants and refugees, the likelihood of further pandemics, populist nationalism, and destabilizing effects of social media, elites must consider new demographic, economic, social, political, and international policies. Higley offers a powerful and provocative analysis of the elite's ability to sustain Western societies in their current social and political forms.

John Higley is Emeritus Professor of Government & Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

1. Avoiding Calamity.- 2. Western Elites and Populists.- 3. Representative Government's Prospects.- 4. Democracy as Rationalization and Panacea.- 5. Anticipations of Parousia in Western Societies.- 6. Intellectual Elites and Realities of Work.- 7. Plutocracy and Demagogy in a Weak State.- 8. The Democracy Ideal Reconsidered.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	IX, 99 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	278 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	American state • Demagogy • Democratic Ideal • Elites • Plutocracy • political realism • Poltical Elites • Populism • threats to democracy • US politics • Western Elites
ISBN-10	3-031-52306-7 / 3031523067
ISBN-13	978-3-031-52306-9 / 9783031523069
Zustand	Neuware