Downsizing Democracy : How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public / / Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg.

• VerfasserIn: Crenson, Matthew A., 1943-,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ginsberg, Benjamin.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 294 pages))
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2002

Originally publushed in 2002. 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 limit...

Table of Contents

• From popular to personal democracy
• The rise and fall of the citizen
• Elections without voters
• Political parties: the old patronage and the new
• Disunited we stand
• From masses to mailing lists
• The jurisprudence of personal democracy
• Movements without members
• Privatizing the public
• Does anyone need citizens?