front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Democracy Challenged: Demography, Technology, and Democratic Possibilities -- Part I: Social Heterogeneity and Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. Problems of Democratic Transition in Divided Societies -- 3. Citizens, Identities, and Democratic Dialogues: Opportunities and Challenges of Diverse Societies -- 4. Democracy, Diversity, and Leadership -- 5. Electoral Engineering, Social Cleavages, and Democracy -- Part II: Technology and Democracy: Mass-Elite Linkages in the Twenty-first Century -- 6. Technological Advances and Individual Liberties: Privacy and the Reach of the State in the Twenty-first Century -- 7. Engineering Consent: The Persistence of a Problematic Communication Regime -- 8. The Internet and Political Fragmentation -- Contributors -- Index -- back cover.