<strong>Democracy</strong> identifies the general processes causing democratization and dedemocratization at a national level across the world over the last few... » 

Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and dedemocratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundredyears. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politicsinsulation of public politics from categorical inequality and suppression ofautonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analyticnarratives and comparisons of multiple regimes mostly since World War II thisbook makes the case for recasting current theories of democracydemocratization and dedemocratization. «