Open AccessFrancesco Giacomantonio, Sociologia dell’agire politico (Rome: Studium, 2014)
Author(s) -
Valeria Ottonelli
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.10.1.27
Subject(s) - democracy , politics , apathy , context (archaeology) , political science , political economy , sociology , law , history , psychology , cognition , archaeology , neuroscience
One of the haunting themes of our time is the crisis of democratic politics in Western societies, marked by the decline of traditional political parties, the fading role of trade unions and workers’ organizations in the context of a globalized economy, the difficulty of grassroot movements to influence public institutions, and citizens’ increasing political apathy and disaffection for the electoral modes of democratic politics.