A Morbid Democracy

The crisis of democracy in Europe and the inability of the political parties and elites to adequately meet the challenges of globalisation exposes the increasingly fragmented middle classes to the temptations of Euroscepticism, and xenophobia. There is an urgent need for an inclusive Europe with a renewed welfare system, based around the citizenry.

Auteur
Monica Simeoni is Assistant Professor of Sociology, at the Sannio University (Benevento, Italy) and Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Ecclesia Mater Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican City, Rome). Her most recent publications include Una democrazia morbosa. Vecchi e nuovi populismi, 2013; Big Society. Contenuti e critiche, co-authored with Franco Vespasiano, 2013; Europa/Europe, Conversations with Alberto Martinelli, Nadia Urbinati, Vittorio Cotesta, 2014.

Contenu

Contents: Ortega y Gasset»s Mass-man - The Hetero-direction of Crowds - Democracy: Evolution or Involution? - Populism: From the Origins to Post-modern Times.