Attention Deficit Democracy : : The Paradox of Civic Engagement /

Attention Deficit Democracy : : The Paradox of Civic Engagement / / Ben Berger.

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Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widesprea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Berger, Ben,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 2 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The rules of engagement
  • Chapter 3. Political Engagement as Intrinsic Good: Arendt and Company
  • Chapter 4. Political Engagement as Instrumental Good: Tocqueville, Attention Deficit, and Energy
  • Chapter 5. Is Political Engagement Better Than Sex?
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion: Tocqueville vs. the Full Monty
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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