Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass
society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed wherein Singapore's
totalitarianism is a dangerous model Washington is enmeshed in gridlock and there is a global
democracy deficit solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of
government. The book demonstrates how mass society politics operates with intermediate
institutions of civil society (media pressure groups political parties) no longer
transmitting the will of the people to government but instead are concerned with corporate
interests and have developed oligarchical mindsets. Rather than micro-remedy bandaids the
author focuses on the need to transform governing philosophies from pragmatic to humanistic
solutions.
