Why Democracies Flounder and Fail

Michael Haas is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and political scientist who has taught at several universities—London, Northwestern, Purdue, the University of California (Riverside), the University of Hawaiʻi, and multiple campuses of California State University. The author of more than 50 books, including Asian and Pacific Cooperation, International Relations Theory, and Political Science Revitalized, he now gives public lecturers around the world.

• 1. Democracy: Components and Types.- 2. Mass Society Paradigm.- 3. Immobilism in the French Fourth Republic.- 4. Singapore’s Totalitarian Mass Society.- 5. Gridlock in Washington.- 6. Global Mass Society.- 7. Remedies for the Perils of Mass Society.

“Haas’ work yields a rich and comprehensive perspective on why democracies flounder and fail. Haas identifies factors of selfish policy-makers and companies, alongside the inability of the electorate to have a strong enough impact on their government or civil society. The book contributes to the existing body of research on democratization by illuminating the critical factors related to the current inadequacies and long-standing failures on the part of democracies, both in national and international level.” (Ikhsan Darmawan, Democratization, August 23, 2019)