Democracies on the Move

Contributions to a Social Theory of Contemporary Democracies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-66459-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Political Sociology

This book enquires into the state of health of contemporary democracies, offering a sociological reading of democracy to identify the causes of the current transformation of democracy from a social and cultural perspective. With attention to the social dynamics present in modern Western societies, it analyses phenomena such as populism, new conspiracy theories and denialism, and processes including de-politicisation and de-democratisation. Identifying the centrality of questions concerning social identity and the political imaginary to our understanding of such phenomena, Democracies on the Move explores the mechanisms that link the transformations of today’s societies to the current phase of crisis in Western democracies. It will therefore appeal to scholars of social and political theory and political sociology.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Millefiorini, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

PRESENTATION

Andrea Millefiorini

PART ONE

Democracy between the paradigm of crisis and paradigm of transformation

Chapter 1

STUDYING DEMOCRACY FROM A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Andrea Millefiorini

Chapter 2

THE DEMOCRATIC FACT: DEMOCRACY, CRISIS, TRANSFORMATION

Gaspare Nevola

Chapter 3

EMERGENCY POLITICS AND DE-DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE AGE OF AUTHORITARIAN NEOLIBERALISM

Fabio de Nardis

Chapter 4

THE FRAGILITY OF 'FACTUAL TRUTHS' AND THE DENIAL OF EXPERIENCE: ARENDTIAN OBSERVATIONS AND REMEDIES TO COUNTER THE REDUCTION OF DEMOCRATIC PLURALISM

Erica Antonini

PART TWO

The identity and social foundations of democratic freedom

Chapter 5

IDENTITY AND DEMOCRACY

Andrea Millefiorini

Chapter 6

CLAIMING THE SOCIAL IN FREEDOM

Massimo Pendenza

PART THREE

Imaginaries of democracy in the 21st century

Chapter 7

DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CULTURE. FROM IDEOLOGIES TO SOCIAL IMAGINARIES

Ambrogio Santambrogio

Chapter 8

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE POLITICAL OR THE SHIFTING IMAGINARY OF MODERN DEMOCRACY

Paul Blokker

CONCLUSIONS

Andrea Millefiorini

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Millefiorini is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, where he also teaches general sociology.