Democratization in Athens : participatory democracy as a dual process of empowering the people and controlling elites -- Democratization in Britain : a long, repeated and incomplete aspiration -- Democratization in South Africa : the people versus a militarist, predominant ethno-nationalist elite -- Democracy in the capitalist heartlands : alienation and dysfunctionalities -- Democratization in Europe and North Africa : democracy regains its revolutionary potentialities -- Democratization in South Africa in 21st century : the potentialities of the organized urban poor and the hostility of a factionalized and corrupt ANC
Democratization is conceived as an unending struggle by the poor majority against the small elite of wealth, status, and power. This book is a critical, comparative, and global approach to the study of democratization and the participants who bring the processes and actual struggles alive.
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