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

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Main Authors:Wolin, Sheldon S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton University Press, 2008
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Table of 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