Democratic Civility: The History and Cross Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal

ISBN-13: 9781138509108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 340 str.

Robert Hefner

Opis

In the aftermath of the cold war, political commentators spoke ebulliently of the triumph of liberal democracy over its ideological rivals

Spis treści

Introduction 1. On the History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Democratic Ideal Part 1: Western Genealogies 2. Genealogies of Civility 3. Between Public and Private: Towards a Sociology of Civil Society 4. A Reasonable Role for Religion? Moral Practices, Civic Participation, and Market Behavior 5. The Social Roots of Prosperity and Liberty 6. Civil Society, Pillarization, and the Welfare State Part 2: Comparative Possibilities 7. Is Civil Society Enough? Comparing Romania and the American South 8. Between Nation and Civil Society: Ethnolinguistic and Religious Pluralism in Independent Ukraine 9. Horizontal Ties and Civil Institutions in Chinese Societies 10. The Function of Business-Related Reciprocity in Chinese Non-Civil Societies 11. Cohabitation? Islamist and Secular Groups in Modern Turkey 12. A Muslim Civil Society? Indonesian Reflections on the Conditions of Its Possibility

O autorze

Robert Hefner