Wolin, Sheldon S.

Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism / Sheldon S. Wolin. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xvii, 356 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Myth in the making -- Totalitarianism's inversion: beginnings of the imaginary of a permanent global war -- Totalitarianism's inversion, democracy's perversion -- The new world of terror -- The utopian theory of superpower: the official version -- The dynamics of transformation -- The dynamics of the archaic -- The politics of superpower: managed democracy -- Intellectual elites against democracy -- Domestic politics in the era of superpower and empire -- Inverted totalitarianism: antecedents and precedents -- Demotic moments -- Democracy's prospects: looking backwards -- Notes.

9780691135663 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2007039176


Democracy--United States.
Corporate state--United States.
Political science--History.
Political science--Philosophy--History.
Totalitarianism.
Fascism.


United States--Politics and government.

JK1726 / .W66 2008

320.973

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