Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism / Sheldon S. Wolin.

Author/creator Wolin, Sheldon S.
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxvii, 356 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Democracy--United States.
Corporate state--United States.
Political science--History.
Political science--Philosophy. --History.
Totalitarianism.
Fascism.
United States--Politics and government.

Contents 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 -- Notes.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-337) and index.
LCCN 2007039176
ISBN9780691135663 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0691135665 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JK 1726 .W66 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold