Is democracy still alive? Does it guarantee a “normal world order”, which everyone was waiting recently? The monograph is devoted to the modern decline of the political style of Europe and the crisis of democratic culture. Krasthev sees the problem not in the institutes of democracy, but in the loss of trust in the elites. He describes the world of control of distrust, where the elites were fenced off from the voter with “transparency” and “network democracy”. The drama of Ukraine – the corruption of elites and street protests – start the middle class in a populist trap. Having become a network conspiracyologist, the voter fell into the hands of managers of mistrust.
The author of the book is the European political scientist and philosopher Ivan Krastev, the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies (Sofia) and a regular researcher at the Institute of Humanities (IWM, Vienna). One of the leading world intellectuals offers a compressed outline of the changes approaching Russia: a boom of conspiracyology at the twilight of democracy.
Author
Krastev Ivan
Editor
Oleinikov A.A.
Translator
Ozhiganova A.
Publisher
Europe, 2014
Series
Notebooks Gefter.ru
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