Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way Between West and East

by Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels

Book Overview

For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must prove itself.

In the West today, the authors argue, we no longer live in "industrial democracies," but "consumer democracies" in which the governing ethos has ended up drowning households and governments in debt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074565973X
• ISBN13: 9780745659732
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"