Beasts and gods : how democracy changed its meaning and lost its purpose /

Beasts and gods : how democracy changed its meaning and lost its purpose / Roslyn Fuller.

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An extraordinary historical, political and philosophical work that is set to not only reconfigure our understanding of democracy, but to challenge the individualistic basis of the modern liberal politics.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Fuller, Roslyn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Zed Books, 2015.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Democracy > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Beasts and Gods
  • Introduction: What Is Democracy?
  • Part I
  • 1: Democracy in Athens: People Power is Born
  • How Athenian Democracy Worked
  • Random Power: The Key to Democratic Success in Athens
  • 2: The Myth of Representation
  • First-Past-the-Post: The Winner Takes It All
  • Other Electoral Systems
  • Modern Democracy as Symbolic Democracy
  • 3: Buying and Selling Elections
  • The High Cost of Campaigning
  • You Get What You Pay for: The Vicious Circle of Political Donations and Government Action
  • A Fistful of Euros: Buying Irish Local Elections
  • Representative Democracy: Second Place is the First Loser
  • Why Referenda Fail
  • Why Regulation Fails
  • Elections: The Perfect Habitat for Manipulation
  • 4: Participation: Bought In or Locked Out?
  • The Struggle to Participate in Modern Democracy
  • Participation in Modern Democracy: Running to Stand Still
  • The Athenian View on Participation
  • Different But (More) Equal: Decision-Making in Athens
  • From Ancient Duty to Modern Privilege
  • 5: Modern Democracy and the International System: A Perfect Storm
  • The United Nations
  • The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund
  • At the International Casino the House Always Wins
  • 6: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Civil Society Chimera
  • The Nature of Modern NGOs: Charity Begins in the Boardroom
  • The Dark Underbelly of NGO Lobbying: Roundtables, Drugs and Lots of Cash
  • Representative Democracy and the International System: Fertile Ground for Oligarchy
  • 7: How Did Things Get to Be This Way? The Roman Republican System and the Founding Fathers of America
  • Roman Politics: Déjà Vu
  • All Sizzle and No Steak: The Roman System Rots at the Core.
  • Forgotten Fathers: Anti-Federalists, Republicans and the Battle for the US Constitution
  • Part II
  • 8: The Way Forward: Digital Democracy
  • The Long-Term Dangers of Electoral Democracy
  • Why International Power Cannot Fix Democracy
  • Digital Democracy Takes Off: Citizens' Budgets and Crowdsourced Constitutions
  • The Next Frontier: Online Decisions with Loomio and DemocracyOS
  • 9: Disinformed is Disenfranchised: Why Taming Mass Media is a Necessary Step Towards Democracy
  • The Medium and the Message: How Communication Methods Affect Decision-Making
  • Using Mass Media to Guide Public Discourse
  • The Meaning of Mass Media for Democracy
  • Battlefield Internet: How Many Soldiers Does It Take to Run a Facebook Account?
  • Reclaiming the Narrative by Funding Massive Participation Instead of Mass Media
  • Mass Media: The Single Biggest Threat to Democracy
  • 10: Democracy and Dissent: The Balance Between Individual and Community
  • The Truth about Individual Rights in Athens
  • Fact is Stranger than Fiction: The Extraordinary Trial of Socrates
  • Protecting Democracy from Dissenters
  • A Fragile Balance: The Economy, the Rule of Law and Democracy
  • Rebalancing the Economy Today
  • The Old Bugbear: Tyranny of the Majority
  • Community and the Individual: Yin and Yang
  • 11: Direct Democracy Today: Cutting the Gordian Knot
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover.

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