Description: Further DetailsTitle: Democracy IncorporatedCondition: NewEAN: 9780691178486ISBN: 9780691178486Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/29/2017Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Sheldon S. WolinContributor: Chris Hedges (Introduction by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism - New EditionISBN-10: 0691178488Description: Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliche. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive--and where elites are eager to keep them that way. At best the nation has become a "managed democracy" where the public is shepherded, not sovereign. At worst it is a place where corporate power no longer answers to state controls. Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies. Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the quest for an ever-expanding economy, and the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror.He argues passionately that democracy's best hope lies in citizens themselves learning anew to exercise power at the local level. Democracy Incorporated is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in decades. It is sure to be a lightning rod for political debate for years to come. Now with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, Democracy Incorporated remains an essential work for understanding the state of democracy in America.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsEdition: New EditionRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Democracy Incorporated
Title: Democracy Incorporated
EAN: 9780691178486
ISBN: 9780691178486
Release Date: 08/29/2017
Release Year: 2017
Contributor: Chris Hedges (Introduction by)
Subtitle: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism - N
ISBN-10: 0691178488
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Edition: New Edition
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Democracy Incorporated : Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism-New Edition
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, American Government / General, Political, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Freedom
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Sheldon S. Wolin
Item Length: 10.4 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
