Trust in the capacities of the people, distrust in elites
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
