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In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time - climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people - the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job.Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of a dozen mayors around the world - courageous, eccentric, or both at once - If Mayors Ruled the World presents a compelling new vision of governance for the coming century. Barber makes a persuasive case that the city is democracy's best hope in a globalizing world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so.Bron : http::/www.amazon.com

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"Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self government at least some of the time, Strong Democracy offers liberal society a new way of thinking about and practicing democracy. Barber argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democratic institutions and brought about the set of crises we still find ourselves struggling against: cynicism about voting, alienation, privatization, and the growing paralysis of public institutions. In a new preface Barber looks at the past twenty years an restates his argument, which seems, sadly, more pressing than ever."--Jacket.

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" Modèle " d'une société démocratique, l'Amérique réagit aujourd'hui aux exigences d'égalité planétaire avec un mépris ploutocratique, dénonçant un nébuleux " axe du mal " sans tenir compte d'un axe de l'inégalité flagrant. Même en appuyant la dictature dans des pays quelle tient pour amis, elle pense pouvoir imposer la démocratie manu militari à des ennemis à terre. Elle croit que des marchés privatisés et un consumérisme agressif sont les instruments qui forgeront la démocratie. Elle reste convaincue que les autres nations sont capables d'instaurer la démocratie du jour au lendemain en important des institutions qu'il a fallu des siècles pour former et développer aux États-Unis. Ce faisant, les États-Unis font fausse route : une puissance impériale suscite nécessairement un rejet à la mesure de la violence de son intrusion. L'empire de la peur peut engendrer l'emprise de la peur, hostile tant à la liberté qu'à la sécurité.

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