Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism /
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 wh...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2017, ©2008.
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| Edition: | New edition. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77b3h |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the 2017 edition / Chris Hedges
- Preview
- Myth in the making
- Totalitarianism's inversion : beginnings of the imaginary of a permanent global war
- Totalitarianism's inversion, democracy's perversion
- The new world of terror
- The utopian theory of superpower : the official version
- The dynamics of transformation
- The dynamics of the archaic
- The politics of superpower : managed democracy
- Intellectual elites against democracy
- Domestic politics in the era of superpower and empire
- Inverted totalitarianism : antecedents and precedents
- Demotic moments
- Democracy's prospects : looking backwards.