Ebook: The concepts and theories of modern democracy

This highly acclaimed and popular academic text is now available in a new edition, having been revised and updated to cover the analyses of the use, abuse and ambiguity of many essential concepts used in political discourse and political studies. These include basic concepts such as liberty, democracy, rights, representation, authority and political power. New to this edition are three sections of great topical interest:entirely original analysis of global terrorism, which puts the recent developments of Islamic terrorism into perspective by comparing it with earlier e.;Chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part 1: Authority in the modern state -- chapter 2 Nationalism and the national state -- chapter 3 Ethnic cleavages, multiculturalism and the national state -- chapter 4 Globalization and the national state -- chapter 5 Global terrorism -- chapter 6 Political authority and legitimacy -- part Part II: The democratic state and the citizen -- chapter 7 Democracy -- chapter 8 Political representation -- chapter 9 Political participation -- chapter 10 Liberty and freedom -- chapter 11 Rights -- part Part III: Political power and policy making -- chapter 12 Political power -- chapter 13 Pluralism -- chapter 14 Elitism and class dominance -- chapter 15 Corporatism -- part Part IV: Styles of political analysis -- chapter 16 Towards a science of politics: positivism, behaviouralism and economic models -- chapter 17 Against a science of politics: values, historicism and hermeneutics.