Research Catalog

Title

After democracy : imagining our political future / Zizi Papacharissi.

Author

Papacharissi, Zizi

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xviii, 156 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it's not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, a transition stage to something better. Drawing on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries, Zizi Papacharissi explores what democracy is, what it means to be a citizen, and what can be done to enhance governance.0 As she probes the ways governments can better serve their citizens and evolve in positive ways, Papacharissi gives a voice to everyday people, whose ideas and experiences of capitalism, media, and education can help shape future governing practices. This book expands on the well-known difficulties of realizing the intimacy of democracy in a global world-the "democratic paradox"-and presents a concrete vision of how communications technologies can be harnessed to implement representative equality, information equality, and civic literacy.

Subject

• Democracy
• Representative government and representation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.

Contents

What If? -- Democracy on the Run -- To Be a Citizen -- Toward the New -- Before Democracy.

Call Number

JFD 21-1708

ISBN

• 0300245963
• 9780300245967

LCCN

2020939832

OCLC

1184240264

Author

Papacharissi, Zizi, author.

Title

After democracy : imagining our political future / Zizi Papacharissi.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 21-1708