Identifying a free society : conditions and indicators / by Milan Zafirovski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zafirovski, Milan, 1958-

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 107.

Studies in critical social sciences ; 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--21st century.

Social history.

Liberalism.

Culture.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

In Identifying a Free Society Milan Zafirovski offers a holistic sociological approach to modern free society as a total social system. The book examines the main conditions and indicators of modern free society such as democracy, a free economy, a free culture, and a free civil society, hence political, economic, cultural, and individual liberty entwined with equality and justice. It provides specific and aggregate free-society estimates for Western and related societies based on a variety of objective rankings, data, and reports. On the basis of these estimates, the book identifies liberal societies as the freest as a whole, and their anti-liberal opposites as the most unfree.

Contents:

Introduction: Modern Free Society

The Political Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—Democracy

Sources and Grounds for Democracy Estimates

The Economic Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—A Free Economy

Sources and Grounds for Free Economy Estimates

The Cultural Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—A Free Culture

Sources and Grounds for Free Culture Estimates

The Civic Condition and Indicator of Modern Free Society—A Free Civil Society

Sources and Grounds for Free Civil Society Estimates

Summary and Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

90-04-34733-X

OCLC:

985447644

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004347335 DOI