The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
High-Technology Industrial Capitalism as a New Mode of Production....Pages 17-30
Three Models of High-Technology Industrial Capitalism....Pages 31-71
The New Class Structure Engendered by the High-Technology Economy, the Bureaucratic State and the Service Sector....Pages 72-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
The New Middle Class as an Aristotelian Base for Democracy....Pages 105-123
The New Middle Class and Law....Pages 124-141
Maintaining the Middle-Class Majority on the High-Technology Industrial Capitalist Base....Pages 142-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Bureaucracy as a Despotic System of Domination....Pages 165-176
Does the Empire Analogy Hold, or Are Critical Differences Emerging?....Pages 177-192
Political Culture Against Democracy....Pages 193-221
Front Matter....Pages 219-221
The Extension of Legal Authority over Public and Private Bureaucracies....Pages 222-230
Mass-Mediated ‘Direct Democracy’....Pages 231-254
Education for Democracy in the High-Technology Global Village....Pages 255-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-278