Democracies on the Move - Contributions to a Social Theory of Contemporary Democracies

This book enquires into the state of health of contemporary democracies, offering a sociological reading of democracy to identifying the causes of the current transformation of democracy from a social and cultural perspective.

List of contents

List of Contributors
PRESENTATION
Andrea Millefiorini
PART ONE
Democracy between the paradigm of crisis and paradigm of transformation
Chapter 1
STUDYING DEMOCRACY FROM A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Andrea Millefiorini
Chapter 2
THE DEMOCRATIC FACT: DEMOCRACY, CRISIS, TRANSFORMATION
Gaspare Nevola
Chapter 3
EMERGENCY POLITICS AND DE-DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE AGE OF AUTHORITARIAN NEOLIBERALISM
Fabio de Nardis
Chapter 4
THE FRAGILITY OF 'FACTUAL TRUTHS' AND THE DENIAL OF EXPERIENCE: ARENDTIAN OBSERVATIONS AND REMEDIES TO COUNTER THE REDUCTION OF DEMOCRATIC PLURALISM
Erica Antonini
PART TWO
The identity and social foundations of democratic freedom
Chapter 5
IDENTITY AND DEMOCRACY
Andrea Millefiorini
Chapter 6
CLAIMING THE SOCIAL IN FREEDOM
Massimo Pendenza
PART THREE
Imaginaries of democracy in the 21st century
Chapter 7
DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CULTURE. FROM IDEOLOGIES TO SOCIAL IMAGINARIES
Ambrogio Santambrogio
Chapter 8
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE POLITICAL OR THE SHIFTING IMAGINARY OF MODERN DEMOCRACY
Paul Blokker
CONCLUSIONS
Andrea Millefiorini

About the author

Andrea Millefiorini is Associate professor of Political Sociology at the University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', where he also teaches General Sociology.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea (University of Campania Luigi Millefiorini
• Assisted by: Andrea Millefiorini (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032664590
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266459-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory