Democracy versus Modernization: a dilemma for Russia and for the world

NY : Routledge, 2012.

Academic editor: Inozemtsev V. L., Dutkiewicz P.

This book seeks to “re-think democracy.” Over the past years, there has been a tendency in the global policy community and, even more widely, in the world’s media, to focus on democracy as the “gold standard” by which all things political are measured. This book re-examines democracy in Russia and in the world more generally, as idea, desired ideal, and practice. A major issue for Russia is whether the modernization of Russia might not prosper better by Russia focusing directly on modernization and not worrying too much about democracy. This book explores a wide range of aspects of this important question. It discusses how the debate is conducted in Russia; outlines how Russians contrast their own experiences, unfavourably, with the experience of China, where reform and modernization have been pursued with great success, with no concern for democracy; and concludes by assessing how the debate in Russia is likely to be resolved.

Chapters

Defeating the authoritarian majority: an uneasy agenda

Urnov M., , in: Democracy versus Modernization: a dilemma for Russia and for the world.: NY: Routledge, 2012. Ch. 6 P. 65–76.

The author elaborates that in the transition from a previous political system into a liberal democracy, there is an ever-present threat of the encroachment of authoritarianism into the democratization agenda. This chapter argues that the conditions for “authoritarian syndrome” can be found in the form that democratization takes and in the culture of a given ...

Added: December 10, 2012

Modernization and democracy

Inglehart R. F., , in: Democracy versus Modernization: a dilemma for Russia and for the world.: NY: Routledge, 2012.

Added: January 28, 2014

Keywords: модернизация, демократия, глобализация, рыночная экономика, либеральные ценности, политический режим, globalization, democracy, modernization, государственный суверенитет, авторитарный синдром, authoritarian syndrome, социальное развитие, market economics, liberal values, политический плюрализм, ценностно-нормативная структура общества, социальные процессы и изменения, общие проблемы и тенденции развития мирового хозяйства, ценности в политике, сферы социальной жизни, социальные явления и институты, социальные и экономические проблемы развития, права и свободы человека и гражданина