Liberal democracy and the empire of speed.
The concept of “time and space compression,” as formulated by a number of prominent social theorists, has far-reaching consequences for democratic theory. The time and space horizons of human activity are undergoing dramatic changes, chiefly because the high-speed character of crucial forms of socia...
| Publicado en: | Polity Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 41 - 68 |
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Fall 2001
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