Bad for democracy : how the presidency undermines the power of the people
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Bad for democracy : how the presidency undermines the power of the people
University of Minnesota Press, c2010
- : pbk
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Previous ed.: 2008
"With a new preface."
Preface date: January 2010
Bibliography: p. 227-236
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dana D. Nelson argues that it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment. This urgent book, with new analysis of President Barack Obama's first months in office, reveals the futility of placing all of our hopes for the future in the American president and encourages citizens to create a politics of deliberation, action, and agency.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The People v. Presidentialism, 1. How the President Becomes a Superhero, 2. Voting and the Incredibly Shrinking Citizen, 3. Presidential War Powers and Politics as War, 4. Going Corporate with the Unitary Executive Conclusion: Reclaiming Democratic Power for Ourselves, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Index
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