Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism

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Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism

Sheldon S. Wolin

Princeton University Press, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-337) and index

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Democracy is struggling in America - by now this statement is almost cliche. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In "Democracy Incorporated", Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive - and where elites are eager to keep them that way.At best the nation has become a "managed democracy" where the public is shepherded, not sovereign. At worst it is a place where corporate power no longer answers to state controls. Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies. Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the quest for an ever-expanding economy, and the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror. He argues passionately that democracy's best hope lies in citizens themselves learning anew to exercise power at the local level. "Democracy Incorporated" is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in decades. It is sure to be a lightning rod for political debate for years to come.

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Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii preview 1 Chapter One: Myth in the Making 4 Chapter Two: Totalitarianism's Inversion: Beginnings of the Imaginary of a Permanent Global War 15 Chapter Three: Totalitarianism's Inversion, Democracy's Perversion 41 Chapter Four: The New World of Terror 69 Chapter Five: The Utopian Theory of Superpower: The Official Version 82 Chapter Six: The Dynamics of Transformation 95 Chapter Seven: The Dynamics of the Archaic 114 Chapter Eight: The Politics of Superpower: Managed Democracy 131 Chapter Nine: Intellectual Elites against Democracy 159 Chapter Ten: Domestic Politics in the Era of Superpower and Empire 184 Chapter Eleven: Inverted Totalitarianism: Antecedents and Precedents 211 Chapter Twelve: Demotic Moments 238 Chapter Thirteen: Democracy's Prospects: Looking Backwards 259 Notes 293 Index 339

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