02774 a2200241 4500 NALT 20250529121134.0 241108b nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781032218168 NALT JC 423 K56R 2023 Kingsbury, Damien. 30296 The rise and decline of modern democracy / Damien Kingsbury. First edition. New York : Routledge, 2023. 245 p. ; 23 cm. Introduction -- Drivers of Political Change -- Ebb and Flow -- Challengers -- Compromise -- Decline -- The Radical Right -- The Future is Not Written -- Conclusion: With a Bang? "The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in particular since the 'third wave' of democratisation from the 1990s. Democracy is in global decline. Fewer countries are democratic and fewer people, globally, live in substantive democracies. Autocracy is now the dominant political form and the future looks, at best, challenging for the retention of such democracies that remain. As they did a century ago, nationalism and populism have again reared their ugly heads, and more people are claiming that democracy no longer addresses their most compelling needs or interests. This book examines what democracy is and the circumstances that allowed - even encouraged - it to arise. Democracy has been a product of a need to find a political model that mediates between competing interests, building on conducive conditions. However, there have since been fundamental changes to those conditions, imbalances within democratic countries and between countries, that have diminished the strength of the democratic proposition. The question now arises as to whether democracy can continue as a matter of political will. Challengers to democracy, from the radical Right in developed countries to populist autocracy and state-centred authoritarianism in developing countries, have increasingly shown this may not be the case. Democracy may survive, as this book concludes, but is likely to do so only with more substantial and conscious commitment to the democratic project, with recognition of the need to replenish the fertility of the political soil in which democracy grows. This wide-ranging and empirically and theoretically rich book will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of political science, international relations, history and democracy"-- Provided by publisher. Democracy 89 GB lcc jamriang.p CATSTF 2024-11-08 105958 105958 111 นางสาวพจพิณ พรมเอี่ยม 0 0 lcc 0 0 CGBL NALT NALT GEN 2024-09-30 195 1 1 JC 423 K56R 2023 3961214572 2025-06-13 00:00:00 2025-05-29 2024-09-30 GB