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A World of Insecurity : Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022Description: 225 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674259843
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC423.B255
Contents:
Insecurity, Inequality, and Democracy -- Take Back Control: Back to the Community? -- The Wild Fire of Resurgent Nationalism -- The Temptation of Authoritarianism -- The Slippery Slope of Majoritarianism -- Social Democracy Redux -- Social Democracy and Capitalism: A Restructuring of Their Fraught Link -- In Search of Economic Security: Universal Basic Income -- In Search of Security: Other Policies.
Summary: "A development economist with roots in India and the United States offers a short but deep and ambitious account of the corrosive effects of economic and cultural insecurity on liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike. His diagnosis: the problem is not inequality or capitalism, but snowballing fear of material and cultural loss"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
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Books Asian University for Women Library Non-fiction General Stacks JC423 .B255 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 031549
Books Asian University for Women Library General Stacks JC423 .B255 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 030072
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Insecurity, Inequality, and Democracy -- Take Back Control: Back to the Community? -- The Wild Fire of Resurgent Nationalism -- The Temptation of Authoritarianism -- The Slippery Slope of Majoritarianism -- Social Democracy Redux -- Social Democracy and Capitalism: A Restructuring of Their Fraught Link -- In Search of Economic Security: Universal Basic Income -- In Search of Security: Other Policies.

"A development economist with roots in India and the United States offers a short but deep and ambitious account of the corrosive effects of economic and cultural insecurity on liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike. His diagnosis: the problem is not inequality or capitalism, but snowballing fear of material and cultural loss"-- Provided by publisher.

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