Democracy Disfigured : : Opinion, Truth, and the People / / Nadia Urbinati.

In Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy. Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfigurati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 Democracy's Diarchy
  • 2 Unpolitical Democracy
  • 3 The Populist Power
  • 4 The Plebiscite of the Audience and the Politics of Passivity
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX