- Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 286 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "About a decade ago, I found myself alone for dinner one evening in Buenos Aires, the city of my birth. I had a lecture to give the next day and I had reserved the time alone to prepare over dinner in a typical neighborhood restaurant. Such a "boliche," in the local porteño slang, was a comfortable setting to have a meal. I sat down with typical Argentine fare and the inescapable good wine and turned to my lecture materials. I soon found myself distracted by an excellent soccer match shown on a large screen tv that had been brought in for the occasion. A couple of glasses of tinto, the reds of Mendoza province, and a close football game, and I accepted that lecture preparation was concluded"--
- Uniform Title
- Democracy unmoored (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Democracy unmoored (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Frayed Social Fabric of Democracy -- The Capacity to Govern -- The Political Institutions of Democracy -- Populism and the Here and Now -- Caudillos in Command -- Judicial Intercession -- Corruption Simpliciter -- Institutional Wreckage -- The Exposed Underpinnings of American Democracy -- Epilogue.
- LCCN
- 2022044661
- OCLC
- ssj0002777414
- Author
Issacharoff, Samuel.
- Title
Democracy unmoored [electronic resource] : populism and the corruption of popular sovereignty / Samuel Issacharoff.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Edition
First Edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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