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Changing Democracies in an Unequal World
Milan :
FrancoAngeli Open Access, 2020.
Academic editor: F. Saccà
1. Introduction The Covid 19 pandemic has, among other things, fueled an international debate on whether the world will be different, more equal, or if it will stay the same after this crisis. It has raised questions on the role of the State, on the weight of the political sphere in an era when political power seemed to be steadily losing the battle with the economic power. It has put globalization to question due to the risks derived from frequent travels and open borders on the one hand and from the restructuring of the strategies of international alliances on the other. It has implicitly evidenced that countries are not only made by individuals fiercely competing with each other on the basis of their own individual merits but that they are societies, made of people who form a community that will have more chances of overcoming a crisis if the state and its political institutions manage to organize and mediate the response to their legitimate (in this case actually vital) interests. For the time being we can see that, in certain countries (in Europe for example) the state has had to intervene more than it had been considered acceptable by neocon ideology. Whereas in the US it has made contradictions explode. Literally: we’ve seen armed white men protesting against any form of lockdown. What was being confronted there was a mislead idea of individual freedom vs public health. Profit against human lives
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Modern society is undergoing dramatic changes. Industrial civilization as a civilization of labour is becoming a thing of the past. The changes involve not just the attitude to labour, but the sphere of labour itself and its professional structure. New professions in information epoch are replacing old industrial occupations, changing stereotypes about everyday life that ...
Added: August 29, 2021
Research target:
Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies
Language:
English
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Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
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Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
Added: June 3, 2026