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Title: Democracy as the Political Empowerment of the Citizen
Condition: New
EAN: 9780739110287
ISBN: 9780739110287
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 17/05/2005
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 159mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 526g
Author: Majid Behrouzi
Language: English
Subtitle: Direct-Deliberative e-Democracy
ISBN-10: 0739110284
Description: Democracy as the Political Empowerment of the Citizen: Direct-Deliberative e-Democracy conceptualizes the age-old idea of democracy in a new way. The fundamental idea underlying this new conceptualization is the now-neglected notion of the people's sovereignty. Although democracy means rule by the people, the people cannot rule unless they are empowered to do so. In order to introduce the notion of sovereignty, and its direct exercise into the liberal-democratic conceptual scheme, this book attempts to "individuate" the idea of the people's sovereignty via individuating the notion of the political empowerment of the people. Using the existing theoretical framework of American liberal democracy as its theoretical grounds, Majid Behrouzi argues that present-day American society has at its disposal the material and technological means and infrastructures (e.g. "e-technologies"), and the political-cultural institutions needed for the actualization of the idea of the direct exercise of the individuated sovereign powers. Together with its companion volume, Democracy as the Political Empowerment of the People: The Betrayal of an Ideal, this book is essential to scholars interested in the evolution of modern democracy and the future of politics and political technology.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Year: 2005

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