Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Three Dimensions of Democracy -- A New Idea -- Human Rights, Representation, and Citizenship -- Limitations on Power -- Representative Political Actors -- Citizenship -- A History of the Modern Democratic Spirit -- Republicans and Liberals -- Opening Up a Public Space -- Democratic Culture -- The Politics of the Subject -- Recomposing the World -- Democracy and Development -- Modernization or Development? -- Transforming Old into New -- Democratization in the East and the South? -- Conclusion

Touraine, Alain | Macey, David

In this book, the author questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. He aims to aid in reconstructing the political space and to promote the rebirth of democratic convictions by combating two threats: On the one, it risks and on the other, its name.