1st Edition
Wanting Democracy Cases, Theories and Realization
Preface. 1. Modern Democracy Part 1: Wanting Democracy: Petitions, Movements and Referendum 2. Petitioning for Representation 3. Contrasting Petition Outcomes 4. Civil Rights Movements 5. After the Civil Rights Movements 6. Referendum 7. Democracy as Theory and Practice Part 2: Democracy Wanting: Theories 8. Bureaucracy and Representative Democracy 9. Political Parties and Leaders 10. Power Elite 11. Dominant Class Part 3: Representative Democracy: Ideal into Practice 12. Democracy in the Real World 13. Democratic Society Part 4: Practical-Ideal 14. Practical-Ideal
Biography
Rosemary H. T. O’Kane is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Political Theory at Keele University, UK. Her books include The Likelihood of Coups (1987), Terror, Force and States: The Path from Modernity (1996), Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Totalitarianism (2004), Terrorism (2007, 2012), Rosa Luxemburg in Action: For Revolution and Democracy (2015). Her book The Revolutionary Reign of Terror: The Role of Violence in Political Change (1991) won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 1993.
This book speaks directly to an emerging generation of students who are not only learning about democracy as a political system, but who are increasingly witnessing its pressures and fragilities in real time.
Dr. Lindsay Scorgie, Associate Professor of Political Science, Western University
