Rethinking Democracy
In his book “Rethinking Democracy,” Hossam Shaker gives the reader unfamiliar views of democracy and the reality of its applications in its European and Western strongholds. He begins to rethink it, starting with a review of conceptual foundations such as “Is democracy the rule of the people by the people?”
The book, which is approximately 200 pages long, deals with related issues, such as developing democracy and rationalizing good governance, observing dilemmas, crises, and symptoms of shortcomings in the reality of democratic experiences, such as: political fluidity, the crisis of representative democracy, paths of elite selection, and the concentration of influence in Western democracies.
It also addresses the phenomenon of “exception from democracy” which literally makes democracy “for some of the population only” who have the privilege of voting in the rounds of voting, due to the nationality or citizenship factor that not everyone has, even a large portion of the population of voting age in some European capitals are excluded from democracy for this reason, and this rate is expected to increase in the coming years.
The book stands at a paradox that some long-established democracies fear the rise of democratic rule in other countries, and the dilemma of the absence of “democratization” in foreign policies, and the fact that these policies lie on the borders of democracy or are isolated from it in reality, which contributes - for example - to explaining the positions of Western countries on the ongoing war of extermination in Gaza, as if the book issued simultaneously anticipated these outcomes and paved the way for the public to understand and comprehend them.
Keywords: Arab Family Library, Arab Family Library, Hossam Shaker
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Number of pages: 192
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Language: Arab
Binding: Paperback
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Publication Year: 2023
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