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020 _a9781526105844
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041 _aeng
082 _a300.01
_bSCH
100 _aSchecter, Darrow
245 0 _aCritical Theory And Sociological Theory : on late modernity and social statehood
_c/Darrow Schecter
260 _bManchester University Press,
_c2019
_aManchester
300 _a246 pages
_c24 cm.
504 _aindex
520 _a"Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent. This book examines such challenges by investigating how the conditions of democratic statehood have been altered at several key historical intervals since 1945. It demonstrates that the formal mechanisms of democratic statehood, such as elections, have always been complemented by civic, cultural, educational, socio-economic and constitutional institutions that mediate between citizens and state authority. Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, the book shows why a sociological approach is urgently needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the formal mechanisms of democratic statehood need to be complemented and updated in new ways today."
650 _aReconsidering the theoretical preconditions of modern democratic statehood: on mediated unity and overarching legal-political form2 Mediated unity in question
942 _cREF
999 _c566635
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