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The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective

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  • © 1997

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  1. Ronald M. Glassman

    1. William Pater son College of New Jersey, Wayne, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Legal-Representative Democracy on a High-Technology Industrial Capitalist Base

    1. Introduction

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 1-13

  3. Legal-Representative Democracy on a High-Technology Industrial Capitalist Base

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. High-Technology Industrial Capitalism as a New Mode of Production

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 17-30

    3. Three Models of High-Technology Industrial Capitalism

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 31-71

    4. The New Class Structure Engendered by the High-Technology Economy, the Bureaucratic State and the Service Sector

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 72-102

  4. The Polis Analogy: The Democratic Potentialities of the New Middle Class

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. The New Middle Class as an Aristotelian Base for Democracy

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 105-123

    3. The New Middle Class and Law

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 124-141

    4. Maintaining the Middle-Class Majority on the High-Technology Industrial Capitalist Base

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 142-161

  5. The Empire Analogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Bureaucracy as a Despotic System of Domination

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 165-176

    3. Does the Empire Analogy Hold, or Are Critical Differences Emerging?

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 177-192

    4. Political Culture Against Democracy

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 193-221

  6. Participation, Power Limitation, Law and Democracy in Technocratic-Bureaucratic Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-221
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    2. The Extension of Legal Authority over Public and Private Bureaucracies

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 222-230

    3. Mass-Mediated ‘Direct Democracy’

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 231-254

    4. Education for Democracy in the High-Technology Global Village

      • Ronald M. Glassman
      Pages 255-261

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 262-278
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High technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks. It has engendered new classes - technocrats, bureaucrats, service and office workers - who will impact the structure and values of society. The question most central for us is that of the survival of democracy on this new base. Will the New Middle Class become the carrying class for a modern form of democracy utilizing the sophisticated communications technology, or will democracy decline under the weight of the managerial and technocratic strata essential to the functioning of the modern economic and political institutions?

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  • William Pater son College of New Jersey, Wayne, USA

    Ronald M. Glassman

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RONALD M. GLASSMAN

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