Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?

Ronald Glassman, PhD, is a sociologist. He has taught at New York University, Connecticut College, the City University of New York, and William Paterson University. Professor Glassman is a specialist in historical sociology and has authored many books on democracy, including The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States (2 vols.); The Middle Class and Democracy in Socio-Historical Perspective; The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective; Caring Capitalism; China in Transition: Communism, Capitalism, Democracy; Democracy and Equality (with William Swatos, Jr.); Charisma, History, and Social Structure; and other books. Glassman teaches at The Stern College for Women, New York.

• THE RICH AGAINST DEMOCRACY.- Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny in the City-States of the Ancient World.- Renaissance Italian City-States: The Triumph of Oligarchy and Tyranny.- Oligarchy and Democracy in the German and Dutch Trade-Capitalist and Reformation City-States.- Oligarchy and Democracy in the Dutch Republic and Great Britain: The Emergence of Representative Democracy.- The Structure of High Technology Global Capitalism.- The Realignment of the Political Parties in the Advanced Capitalist Nations.- Global Capitalism vs. Geo-Political Nationalism.- The Managerial and Entrepreneurial Rich Take a Huge Percentage of the Wealth to Themselves.- Taxing the Rich.- THE POOR AGAINST DEMOCRACY.- Aristotle on the Problem of a Majority Poor.- Africa and the Traditional Poor.- The Middle East:  The Sunni-Shia Split; Radical Islam; Tribalism; and Oil.- The Poor, The Military, and Tyranny.- TYRANNY.- The Origins of Tyranny: From the War Chiefand Shaman to Divine Kingship.- The Emergence of Tyranny Without Traditional Kingship.- Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny in the Italian City-States.- Tyranny During the English and French Revolutions: Cromwell, Napoleon and Louis Napoleon.- From Tyranny to Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Fascism and Nazism, Mass Mobilization and Mass Murder.- From Tyranny to Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Communism – Utopian Dreams and Totalitarianism Reality.- Totalitarianism: Tyranny Taken to a Terrifying Level Totalitarianism as a New Political Phenomenon.- Illiberal Democracy: A New Form of Modern Tyranny.- OCHLOCRACY: MOB RULE AND CROWD PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CYBERSPHERE.- Ochlocracy as a Critique of Democracy in the Ancient Greek World.- Ochlocracy Disappears: The Rise of Representative Democracy.- Ochlocracy in the Cybersphere.- THE MODERN TRANSITION: A FOURFOLD PROCESS – ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, WORLDVIEW, AND POLITICAL.- The Economic Transition to High Technology Industrial Capitalism.- The Cultural Transition: The Cultural Transition: From Traditional Religious Family and “Tribal” Values to the “Politically Correct” Values, on Racial Equality, Gender Equality, Gay Liberation, and Multiculturalism.- The New Worldview: The Rational Scientific Worldview, and, Secular Humanism.- The Political Transition: From Traditional Authority (Monarchy) to Electoral Democracy with Legal-Rational Authority.