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The dialectic of democracy: modernization, emancipation and the great regression

Ingolfur Blühdorn
- 02 Apr 2020 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 3, pp 389-407
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In some of the most established and supposedly immutable liberal democracies, diverse social groups are losing confidence not only in established democratic institutions, but also in the idea of liberal....
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In some of the most established and supposedly immutable liberal democracies, diverse social groups are losing confidence not only in established democratic institutions, but in the idea of liberal...

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One dimensional man

David Bell
- 01 May 1965 - 
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Democracy and Its Critics

TL;DR: The course is focused on historical texts, most of them philosophical as discussed by the authors, and context for understanding the texts and the course of democratic development will be provided in lecture and discussions, and by some background readings (Dunn).
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民主的模式 = Models of democracy

赫尓徳, +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a history of classical and modern democracy, including the development of modern democracy and its history as a double-sided process of revolution, dictatorship, and dictatorship.
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Mary Gluck
- 01 May 1993 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the self: ontological security and existential anxiety are discussed, as well as the trajectory of the self, risk, and security in high modernity, and the emergence of life politics.
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

TL;DR: In the context of a post-traditional order, the self becomes a reflexive project as mentioned in this paper, which is not a term which has much applicability to traditional cultures, because it implies choice within plurality of possible options, and is 'adopted' rather than 'handed down'.
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The Theory of Communicative Action

TL;DR: In this article, an apex seal for a rotary combustion engine is disclosed having a hollow, thin wall, tubular, metal core member embedded in an extruded composite metal-carbon matrix, adapted to slideably engage the slot of the rotor in which it rides and sealingly engage the rotor housing against which it is spring and gas pressure biased.
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Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy

TL;DR: The conditions associated with the existence and stability of democratic society have been a leading concern of political philosophy as discussed by the authors, and the problem is attacked from a sociological and behavioral standpoint, by presenting a number of hypotheses concerning some social requisites for democracy, and by discussing some of the data available to test these hypotheses.
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Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies

TL;DR: The 1990 WVS Questionnaire was used by as mentioned in this paper for the ICPSR Questionnaire, with variable numbers of items used in Table 1 and Table 2... Table 1.