Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public - Hardcover

Crenson, Professor Matthew A.; Ginsberg, Professor Benjamin

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ISBN 10: 0801871506 ISBN 13: 9780801871504

Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

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Book by Crenson Professor Matthew A Ginsberg Professor Ben

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"Downsizing Democracy offers a sweeping and unsparing portrait of democratic decline in America. Crenson and Ginsberg refute accounts that blame ordinary citizens for our listless democracy. Instead they show how institutional changes have freed elites from mass constituencies and encouraged the substitution of personal action for political mobilization." -- Margaret Weir, University of California, Berkeley

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In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process, resulting in narrow special interest groups dominating state and federal decision-making. At a time when an American's investment in the democratic process has largely been reduced to an annual contribution to a political party or organization, Downsizing Democracy offers a critical reassessment of American democracy.

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• Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0801871506
• ISBN 13: 9780801871504
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320