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1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
ISBN:
9780226837581
Serie:
The life of ideas
Inhalt:
"A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos Rising, he presents readers of political history with a prequel whose ambitious claim is that a genuine demos became possible in France only with the development of government regulation and administration. Focusing on democracy as a form of administration rather than as a form of sovereignty allows Sawyer to explore urban planning, work and private enterprise, health administration, and much more, as cornerstones of a self-governing society of equals. Focusing on the period between 1800 and 1850, Sawyer examines a set of thinkers who debated at length over the material problems of everyday life, sparking calls for political action and social reform in the face of conflict wrought by issues like deforestation, urbanization, health crises, labor relations, industrial capitalism, religious tensions, and imperial expansion. The solutions to these problems, Sawyer argues, were sought and sometimes found, not through elections, as one might assume, but rather through the "care for all" promised by modern administrative power, regulatory intervention, and social welfare programs. By studying this profound transformation in governance, the book wagers, we can better understand the origin and meaning of democracy when events in our own time have thrown the concept into doubt"-- Provided by publisher
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-292) and index
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Introduction. The demos revolution -- Democratizing the social contract -- Forest democracy : a new regulatory landscape -- Administrative democracy : the public city -- Health democracy : the body politic -- Workplace democracy : equity and popular arbitration -- Capital democracy : a very social contract -- Substantive democracy : the nonsecular foundations of a democratic social science -- Imperial democracy : colonial empire and the limits of the demos -- Conclusion. The mixed social constitution.
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ISBN 9780226837574
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ISBN 0226837572
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ISBN 9780226837598
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ISBN 0226837599
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sawyer, Stephen W., - 1974- Demos rising Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025 ISBN 9780226837574
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ISBN 0226837572
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ISBN 9780226837598
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ISBN 0226837599
Sprache:
Englisch
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