Democracy´s voices
social ties and the quality of public life in Spain
- ISBN: 9780801442261
- Editorial: Cornell University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2004
- Lugar de la edición: New York. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Politics / Europe
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 194
- Idiomas: Inglés
Building on one of sociology#s core ideas#that social ties can shape collective outcomes#Democracy#s Voices shows that connections across class boundaries can remake public rhetoric and thus the quality of democratic life. Robert M. Fishman takes up a question of enduring significance to people concerned with the quality of democratic public life, focusing on why political rhetoric proves engaging and broadly relevant, or disengaging and narrow. The answer to that question, he argues, is to be found not only in the deeds of prominent politicians and the nature of official institutions but also in the existence and the character of social connections among ordinary citizens. Fishman#s book, based on long-term fieldwork and systematic survey research in Spain, identifies the special contribution to democratic quality made by conversations between intellectuals and workers.
