Download or read book Between Theory and Practice: Essays on Criticism and Crises of Democracy written by Eerik Lagerspetz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government ‘by the people’? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality closer to the ideal? Or does it actually make the ideal unattainable? The volume brings together conceptual historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms and crises of democracy with fresh approaches to the idea of democracy, democratic theory, democratic institutions, trust and distrust, populism, and advancement of technologies in Western societies.