Thinking democracy now

by Nadia Urbinati

"Ten years after the publication of Feltrinelli 'Annale' La democrazia di fronte allo Stato, edited by Alessandro Pizzorno (2010), far-reaching events have led us to go back to the risks and challenges modern democracies are facing. This new volume of the 'Annali', Thinking Democracy Now: Between Innovation and Regression, studies the transformations affecting contemporary democracies from the perspective of their conflicting potentials. The chapters in the book develop around the following paradox: today democracy enjoys such an undisputed hegemony that even regimes threatening it do so in...