The first edition of this book, published in 2019 under the same title, addressed some of the most pressing questions of the time. It pondered the threat globalisation posed for democracy and its legitimacy, and it considered the challenges democracy faced by high-level migrations, the rise of populism, and the encroachment of authoritarianism. Building on a cross-cultural study of democracy conducted by the Transformation Research Unit (TRU) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa for nearly twenty years Sweden, Germany, Chile, South Korea, Taiwan, South Africa, Turkey and Poland received thorough attention. Further insights were gained by examining the influence on democracy of the global screen culture of Television and the Internet, and by posing the question of what democracy could learn from diplomacy to fare better in the future.

This second edition brings up-to-date all these themes and offers a new chapter addressing the impact of social media and disinformation. The original authors have updated their earlier offerings but now as members of the Centre for Research on Democracy, CREDO, the successor to TRU.

Given the broad range of topics and cases supported by current data, the book is bound to appeal not only to students and practitioners of democracy but also to the general reader.

Studies the causes and effects of declining legitimacy in countries worldwide Provides a longitudinal analysis of five younger democracies and two well-established democracies Addresses relevant and topical concerns relating to crisis of democracy

Autorentext

Ursula van Beek is the founding Director of the Centre for Research on Democracy, CREDO, at the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She is the editor and co-author of seven books on democracy in cross-cultural perspective. Her interests include historical memory and identity, comparative historical analyses, and cultural values and democracy.

Inhalt

Introduction - Ursula van Beek.- Part I: Theoretical aspects and overview.- Chapter 1: Globalization, Populism and Legitimacy in Contemporary Democracy - Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann.- Chapter 2: Temporal Models of Political Development - Laurence Whitehead.- Chapter 3: Democratic Quality and Legitimacy in the TRU Countries - Ursula Hoffmann-Lange and Dirk Berg-Schlosser.- Part II: Critical cases.- Chapter 4: The Rise and Fall of the National Ethos in Poland - Ursula van Beek.- Chapter 5: Identity politics: Extreme polarization and loss of capacity to compromise in Turkey - Yilmaz Esmer.- Chapter 6: Political Radicalism Revisited: Responding to the Legitimacy Gap in South Africa - Nicola de Jager and Cindy Steenekamp.- Part III: Regional aspects.- Chapter 7: Democratization in Chile: A Long Run and Comparative Perspective - Laurence Whitehead.- Chapter 8: Democratic Resilience in South Korea and Taiwan - Joseph Wong.- Part IV: Global aspects.- Chapter 9: Globalisation and Social Protection: An Economic Perspective - Krige Siebrits.- Chapter 10: Global Electronic Screen Culture: Legitimacy at Stake? - Pierre du Toit.- Chapter 11 Disinformation and Democratic Erosion: Epistemic Crisis in the Post-Truth Era - Kira Alberts.- Chapter 12: Lessons for Democracy: Diplomacy to the Rescue? - Christer Jönsson.- Chapter 13: The Question of Legitimacy in Contemporary Democracies - Ursula van Beek, Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann.