Rethinking Democracy: The New Model of Democracy for the New Democratic Era

Hanno Scholtz

Dec 2025 · De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Book 62 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The world is in crisis. Wars erupt, inequality is widening, climate breakdown accelerates. Polarization deepens, and populists feed on it. The world has changed. The old model of democracy isn’t working any more.

This book argues that good societies always build on empowering individuals. Postwar democracy did so based on shared identities and limited interdependence. A new model of democracy must embrace our new individualized and interconnected world. Rethinking Democracy reinvents it that way.

Hanno Scholtz’s Civil Democracy concept shifts the focus from elite competition to empowering citizens as decision-makers. It offers a bold new vision and strategy for globally rebuilding democracy for the 21st century.

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About the author

Hanno Scholtz, PD Dr. rer. pol., is a political scientist and sociologist teaching at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg (CH). His work on the interaction of societies and their institutions ranges from vote-splitting over democratization to the contemporary polycrisis.

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