The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective

Introduction: Industrial Capitalism and Legal Representative Democracy: The End of History? - PART 1: LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY ON A HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL CAPITALIST BASE - High Technology Industrial Capitalism as a New Mode of Production - Three Models of High Technology Industrial Capitalism - The New Class Structure Engendered by the High Technology Economy - PART 2: THE POLIS ANALOGY: THE DEMOCRATIC POTENTIALITIES OF THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS -The New Middle Class as an Aristotelian Mediating Class - The New Middle Class and Law - Maintaining the Middle Class Majority on a High Technology Capitalist Base - PART 3: THE EMPIRE ANALOGY: BUREAUCRACY AGAINST DEMOCRACY - Bureaucracy as a Despotic System of Domination - Does the Empire Analogy Hold, or are Critical Differences Emerging - Political Culture Against Democracy - PART 4: PARTICIPATION, POWER LIMITATION, LAW, AND EDUCATION IN TECHNOCRATIC-BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETY - The Extension of Legal Authority over Public and Private Bureaucracies - Mass Mediated Direct Democracy: Television Town Meetings and Computer Referenda: Civil Society Through a Lens - Education for Democracy in a High Technology Mass Media World Culture - Index