Political Parties and Democracy: Explorations in History and Theory by Arthur Lipow
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Political Parties and Democracy
Summary
This is a study of the Americanization of British politics. Central to this are the ideas of plebiscitarianism - the practice of democracy in which elites manipulate politics using the terminology of democracy to legitimize minority rule.
Political Parties and Democracy Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 The American persuasion - democracy vs the politics of plebiscitarianism: direct democracy and progressive political reform; populism and democracy; attacking democracy - state funding of political parties; political reform as a danger to democracy; regulating politics; democratic rights and the regulation of politics; common cause - the dangerous lobby; the end of The American Dream - crisis in American politics. Part 2 Theorists and advocates: Karl Mannheim - turning Marx upside down; alienation and the new slavery; right face - sociology under attack. Part 3 After the Cold War: civil society, democracy, and the Cold War; transnationalism from below - Labour into the 21st century. Part 4 In the battle - views and reviews: the authoritarian socialism of H.G. Wells; culture of complaint - the fraying of America.
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GOR004045053
9780745310985
0745310982
Political Parties and Democracy: Explorations in History and Theory by Arthur Lipow
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pluto Press
19960318
256
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