Cover -- Renovating Democracy -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface: There Is Something Wrong with the System -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rethinking Democracy, the Social Contract, and Globalization -- The Paradoxes of Governance in the Digital Age -- Where China Comes In -- Taking Back Control -- The Politics of Renovation -- 1. Behind the Populist Surge -- Peril Resides within Promise -- Disruption, Insecurity, and Identity -- Luther's 95 Theses and Twitter's 280 Characters -- What about Us? -- God and Computers -- 2. Rethinking Democracy -- Representative Government in Crisis -- The Participatory Power of Social Media -- Thinking outside the Ballot Box -- Back to the Drawing Board of Constitutional Design -- The American Founders: A Republic, Not a Democracy -- The Progressives: Direct Democracy and Smart Government -- The Third Turn: Participation without Populism -- California as a Laboratory of Democracy -- Fundamental Redesign of State Government -- 3. Redrawing the Social Contract -- Job Loss and Inequality in the Digital Age -- The Transformation of Capital by Knowledge -- The Parallel Sharing Economy -- The Future of Work -- Flexicurity and Pre-distribution -- An Equity Share for All Citizens: Universal Basic Capital -- A Postcapitalist Scenario -- 4. Harnessing Globalization -- The China Challenge -- Positive Nationalism -- Open Societies Need Defined Borders -- One World, Many Systems -- Epilogue: Our Image of the Future Shapes the Present -- Notes -- Index.