Democracy has changed considerably in recent years to the extent that our contemporary understanding differs greatly from long-held democratic values. In this collection, renowned democratic theorists from Noam Chomsky to Francis Fukuyama give their thoughts on 'new democratic theory' and its implications for the study and practice of democracy.

Autorentext
Ulrich Beck, University of Munich (LMU), Germany and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA John Dryzek, Australian National University, Australia John Dunn, University of Cambridge, UK and Chiba University, Japan Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, USA David Held, University of Durham, UK Ramin Jahanbegloo, York University, Canada John Keane, University of Sydney, Australia and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Germany Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France, France Thomas Seeley, Cornell University, USA Albert Weale, University College London, UK

Inhalt

1. Introduction: New Democratic Theory? 2. The Impossibility of 'Knowing' Democracy; with John Dunn 3. The Changing History of Democracy; with Albert Weale 4. Democracy Before and After the State; with Francis Fukuyama 5. The Cultural Turn in New Democratic Theory; with Ramin Jahanbegloo 6. Questions about the New Democratic Theory; with David Held 7. The Reflexive Modernisation of Democracy; with Ulrich Beck 8. Twists of Democratic Governance; with John Dryzek 9. Certain Turns of Modernity in Democratic Theory; with Pierre Rosanvallon 10. Broadening the Democratic Imagination; with John Keane 11. Nonhuman Democratic Practice; with Thomas Seeley 12. Global Leviathan Rising; with Noam Chomsky 13. Conclusion; Shapes of the Frontier