Overview
- Explores how the concept of democracy is being impacted by technological developments
- Proposes that democracy requires trust as well as distrust to function properly
- Brings together historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms of democracy
Part of the book series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (CDC)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Trust, Distrust and Democracy
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Authoritarianism and Democracy
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Democracy—The Will of the People?
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About this book
Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government ‘by the people’? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality closer to the ideal? Or does it actually make the ideal unattainable?
The volume brings together conceptual historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms and crises of democracy with fresh approaches to the idea of democracy, democratic theory, democratic institutions, trust and distrust, populism, and advancement of technologies in Western societies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eerik Lagerspetz is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland.
Oili Pulkkinen is a historian, who is currently researching artificial intelligence, democracy, political subjectivity and time.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Between Theory and Practice: Essays on Criticism and Crises of Democracy
Editors: Eerik Lagerspetz, Oili Pulkkinen
Series Title: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41397-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41396-4Published: 01 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41399-5Due: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41397-1Published: 31 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3416
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3424
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Political Sociology, Political Philosophy, Political History