Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism
by
Wolin, Sheldon S.
Title
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Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism
Author
:
Wolin, Sheldon S.
ISBN
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9781400834846
Publication Information
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xxiv, 356 pages)
Abstract
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Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. 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 h.
Subject Term
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Democracy -- United States.
Corporate state -- United States.
Political science -- History.
Political science -- Philosophy -- History.
Totalitarianism.
Fascism.
Electronic Access
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Online Library | E-Book | 374874-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |