Nathan Gardels is Cofounder of the Berggruen Institute and Editor-in-Chief of The WorldPost, a partnership with the Washington Post. He is the coauthor of Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between East and West, a Financial Times best book of 2012. His previous books include American Idol after Iraq, The Changing Global Order and At Century’s End.Nicolas Berggruen is Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He is coauthor of Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East and is copublisher of The WorldPost. He is also Chairman of Berggruen Holdings.

• Preface: There Is Something Wrong with the SystemAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rethinking Democracy,the Social Contract, and GlobalizationThe Paradoxes of Governance in the Digital AgeWhere China Comes InTaking Back ControlThe Politics of Renovation1. Behind the Populist SurgePeril Resides within PromiseDisruption, Insecurity, and IdentityLuther’s 95 Theses and Twitter’s 280 CharactersWhat about Us?God and Computers2. Rethinking DemocracyRepresentative Government in CrisisThe Participatory Power of Social MediaThinking outside the Ballot BoxBack to the Drawing Board of Constitutional DesignThe American Founders: A Republic, Not a DemocracyThe Progressives: Direct Democracy and Smart GovernmentThe Third Turn: Participation without PopulismCalifornia as a Laboratory of DemocracyFundamental Redesign of State Government3. Redrawing the Social ContractJob Loss and Inequality in the Digital AgeThe Transformation of Capital by KnowledgeThe Parallel Sharing EconomyThe Future of WorkHow Tax Dollars Are SpentAn Equity Share for All Citizens: Universal Basic CapitalUniversal Basic Income as a FloorA Postcapitalist Scenario4. Harnessing GlobalizationThe China ChallengePositive NationalismOpen Societies’ Need for Defined BordersOne World, Many SystemsEpilogue: Our Image of the FutureShapes the PresentNotesIndex

"In this new book, Nicolas Berggruen, the founder and chairman of the Berggruen Institute, and his co-founder, the WorldPost editor Nathan Gardels, are kicking the tires of democracy. The brainy duo take this opportunity to think about the system of government, what makes it work, how it fails, and whether it's still the best way to run the world. This isn't light reading, but it's necessary.”