Critical Theory and Sociological Theory: On Late Modernity and Social Statehood

by Darrow Schecter

Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent. This book examines such challenges by investigating how the conditions of democratic statehood have been altered at several key historical intervals since 1945. It demonstrates that the formal mechanisms of democratic statehood, such as elections, have always been complemented by civic, cultural, educational,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526105845
• ISBN13: 9781526105844
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"