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The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Legal-Representative Democracy on a High-Technology Industrial Capitalist Base

    1. Introduction

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 1-13
  3. Legal-Representative Democracy on a High-Technology Industrial Capitalist Base

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
  4. The Polis Analogy: The Democratic Potentialities of the New Middle Class

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. The New Middle Class and Law

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 124-141
  5. The Empire Analogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Bureaucracy as a Despotic System of Domination

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 165-176
    3. Political Culture Against Democracy

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 193-221
  6. Participation, Power Limitation, Law and Democracy in Technocratic-Bureaucratic Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-221
    2. Mass-Mediated ‘Direct Democracy’

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 231-254
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 262-278

About this book

High technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks. It has engendered new classes - technocrats, bureaucrats, service and office workers - who will impact the structure and values of society. The question most central for us is that of the survival of democracy on this new base. Will the New Middle Class become the carrying class for a modern form of democracy utilizing the sophisticated communications technology, or will democracy decline under the weight of the managerial and technocratic strata essential to the functioning of the modern economic and political institutions?

Authors and Affiliations

  • William Pater son College of New Jersey, Wayne, USA

    Ronald M. Glassman

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RONALD M. GLASSMAN

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