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Between Theory and Practice: Essays on Criticism and Crises of Democracy, Hardback Book

Between Theory and Practice: Essays on Criticism and Crises of Democracy Hardback

Edited by Eerik Lagerspetz, Oili Pulkkinen

Part of the Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century series

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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.

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