Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Global Democracy
6. Twenty-First Century Democracy, or Cleisthenes Revisited 13
7. Isonomía, Isegoría, Isomoiría, and Democracy at the Global Level 29
8. Realpolitik/Neo-conservatism
9. In the Shadow of Hobbes: The Challenge to Democratic Theory 47
10. Neo-conservatism and Beyond 63
11. Participation/Civil Society
12. Can Direct Democracy Coexist with the Modern State? 75
13. Democratic Safety Valves: The Therapeutic Effects of Anti-Political Referendums 87
14. Whatever Happened to Civil Society? 97
15. Nation, Identity, and Community
16. Democracy and Nationalism 113
17. Culture, Identity, and Globalization 123
18. In Search of the Lost Community: Charles Taylor and Modernity 131
19. Bibliography 147
20. Index 165