Too much of our thinking about democracy implicitly relies upon a - TopicsExpress



          

Too much of our thinking about democracy implicitly relies upon a misleading image of society as a flat arena composed of individuals who may join associations and who organize social life and political life spontaneously in creating a “civil society” while tending to ignore the hierarchical, complex, antagonist structures in society—tribal and ethnic structures, clientelistic networks, family networks, sects and religious groups,sporting clubs, machine politics,secret societies, and so on—that preexisted the moment of transition to democracy and that play a role in the process of creating democracy - Linz, Cautionary and Unorthodox Thoughts about Democracy Today, p.233.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:51:34 +0000

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