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MIT Press Ltd Experimental Politics
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Good Society
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Liberty Fund Inc Virtue of Civility Selected Essays on Liberalism
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Cambridge University Press The Prophet of Modern Constitutional Liberalism
Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Mill is the father of modern liberalism. His most remembered work, On Liberty, which was published in 1859, changed the course of the liberal tradition. What is less well-known is that his ideas have profoundly influenced the American constitutional rights tradition of the latter half of the twentieth century. Mill''s ''harm principle'' inspired the constitutional right to privacy recognized in Griswold v Connecticut, Roe vs Wade and other cases. His defense of freedom of expression influenced Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Douglas, Brennan and others and led to greatly expanded freedom of speech in the twentieth century. Finally, Mill was an ardent feminist whose last important work, The Subjection of Women, was a full-scale and, for its time, radical defense of complete gender equality. This is a book for lawyers who want to understand the intellectual origins of modern constitutional rights, and for political philosophers interested in the constitutional implications of MillTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Mill and his Place in the Liberal Tradition: 1. Mill's life, work and character; 2. Liberalism before Mill; 3. Inventing modern liberalism; Part II. Mill and the Constitution: 4. Constitutional liberties before Mill; 5. The intellectual origins of the right to privacy; 6. Mill and the right of freedom of expression; 7. A new equality.
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Cambridge University Press Foundations of American Political Thought
Book SynopsisAmerican political thought was shaped by a unique combination of theoretical influences: republicanism, liberalism, and covenant theology. This reader shows how these influences came together. Organized chronologically from the Puritans'' arrival in the New World to the Civil War, each chapter includes carefully selected primary sources and substantial commentary to explain the historical context and significance of the excerpts. A coherent interpretative framework is offered by focusing the analysis on the different assumptions of the people - the republican understanding as a corporate whole and the liberal understanding as a multitude of individuals - that were intertwined during the founding. The book features, for the first time, two chapters on non-American authors, who capture the main tenets of republicanism and liberalism and were widely quoted in the era, as well as excerpts from lesser-known sources, including Puritan covenants, the first state constitutions, and Native AmerTrade Review'This valuable anthology connects primary texts of American political thought with key works of the European tradition. By focusing on the liberal, republican, and Puritan sources of the American founding period, Fumurescu and Schön provide the best introduction I know to the richness and diversity of our enduring national character. This book will be an invaluable instructional text for years to come.' Steven B. Smith, Yale University'This is a judiciously selected, well organized, and helpfully introduced anthology that should prove a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate teaching of the historical foundations of America's civic culture.' Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas, Austin'Alin Fumurescu and Anna Marisa Schön provide an excellent introduction to the foundations of American political thought with this collection of readings and commentary that showcases competing understandings of the American political order and contested notions of American exceptionalism. Beginning with the classical and modern sources of American political thought and concluding with Abraham Lincoln's profound reflections in the crucible of the Civil War, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.' Justin Buckley Dyer, University of MissouriTable of Contents1. Introduction – The People's Two Bodies; 2. Republicanism – The People 'Is'; 3. Liberalism – The People 'Are'; 4. The Puritans – The Bi-Dimensional Covenant; 5. Independence – The Negative Founding; 6. The Positive Founding (I): One People or Several Peoples? 7. The Positive Founding (II) – The People as One and Many; 8. The Whole and the Parties; 9. People That Were Left Behind; 10. The United States 'Is'.
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Cambridge University Press Liberalism Diversity and Domination
Book SynopsisThis book examines how distinctive liberalisms respond to human diversity. It reconstructs Immanuel Kant's and John Stuart Mill's treatments of racial, cultural, and gender-based difference to understand how two of the tradition's leading figures reacted to pluralism, and what contemporary readers might draw from them.Trade Review'Liberalism, Diversity, and Domination is a truly innovative take on European political theory's historical entanglements with empire. Marwah combines conceptual and contextual approaches to the history of political thought with a sympathetic attention to anti- and postcolonial criticism and a simultaneous unwillingness to abandon the promise of liberalism as an open and receptive political vision. The result is a compelling re-reading of John Stuart Mill's political theory that challenges the predominant tendency to dismiss his work as inescapably flawed by empire while also calling for greater reflection on the problems and possibilities of liberalism.' Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College, Washington'Inder S. Marwah offers a defense - at once passionate and qualified - of Millian liberalism as a valuable ethos for modern pluralistic societies, even as he takes stock of John Stuart Mill's own imperial commitments. This book is a useful provocation and a thoughtful, carefully argued, and independent-minded work of scholarship.' Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago'In this brilliant intervention in the liberalism/postcolonialism debate, Inder S. Marwah defends two shocking (for the conventional wisdom) theses: that liberalism can indeed be retrieved for an anti-colonial project, but that John Stuart Mill - rather than Immanuel Kant - should be the Western figure revised and rehabilitated as an ally for the Global South. Canvassing a truly remarkable wealth of both primary and secondary literature, while developing an incisive line of argumentation of its own, this courageous and iconoclastic book will immediately become required reading for anybody interested in the past half-century's controversies on these issues.' Charles Mills, City University of New York'Marwah's readings of Kant and Mill are broad and deep, connecting works on history and anthropology with those on ethics and politics.' D. C. Kolb, Choice'This is a highly important debate and this carefully researched and well-crafted work is a worthy contribution to it. It is worth the investment of time for anyone interested in liberalism, its history, and its relation to difference.' Vince Bagnulo, The Review of Politics'This is an important book and a necessary read for specialists of Kant's early intellectual development.' Courtney D. Fugate, Journal of the History of PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Unbending crooked timber; 3. Difference, diversity and exclusion; 4. Democratic character and the affective grounds of politics; 5. Complicating barbarism and civilization; 6. Millian liberalism; 7. Epilogue.
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Granville Island Publishing New Liberalism
Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, liberalism was modernized to tackle the challenges of the time. Today, liberalism must again be renewed to ensure that freedom is protected for future generations. For a society to be maintained and evolve, Kalkman suggests that the notion of a common humanity extending to all people on this planet needs to be embraced.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Deliberative Democracy
Book SynopsisDeliberative democracy can be seen as a part of the agenda of deepening democracy, wherein the public deliberation of citizens forms the basis of legitimate decision-making, with the people participating directly in the deliberations or making of decisions that affect them. Although political theorists have long contended that democracy should not be based merely on voting but also on informed public debate and despite diverse attempts at deliberative democracy having been made in various parts of the world, it is only during the recent decades that such initiatives have gained momentum. In terms of procedural democracy and the working of democratic institutions, India's record is considered to be noteworthy.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Puppeteers
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJason Chaffetz first fought the Deep State from the inside. Now he has written a powerful guide to how it works and how to fight it. The Deep State is not to be missed. — Peter Schweizer on The Deep State Jason Chaffetz captures the reality of disaster liberalism in this fascinating new book. It’s true, Democrats never let a crisis go to waste. They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste illuminates the tactics, shares the stories, provides unique insight, and gives you the perspective so you can recognize what’s happening in real time. Once you see what they do, and how they do it, you will never look at Washington, D.C., the same. — Sean Hannity on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste makes clear that the left has two sets of rules: one for themselves and one for everybody else. If you don’t buy their vision of an all-encompassing government, they deem you morally insufficient. That’s reason alone to deny them the power they seek. — Ben Shapiro on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste shares the stories and provides true insights like you’ve never seen before. — Nicole Saphier, MD, on They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste In Power Grab, Jason Chaffetz takes us along his path toward a disturbing realization. Even as a seasoned political insider, he was taken aback by the post-Trump American reality in which news was quickly replaced by political theater and little was as it appeared to be. There are lessons for all of us, if we are willing to open our eyes. — Sharyl Attkisson on Power Grab Power Grab will leave you wanting more. Long after you’ll be thinking about the implications of what Jason Chaffetz reveals in this stunning new account of Washington, D.C., politics. Readers will never again take Democratic narratives at face value. The duplicity, the hypocrisy, and the flippancy with which they sacrifice the very foundational elements of our government must be fought on every level. — Sara A. Carter on Power Grab
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HarperCollins How I Saved the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Where is Dana Perino? She is desperately needed.” — Jesse's mom “Jesse Watters is officially out of control.” — Washington Post “Does Watters have the most punchable face in America? The answer is obviously yes.” — Daily Beast “Keep this guy off TV.” — Mayor Bill DeBlasio “A human Jäger bomb.” — Media Matters “A smug, unfunny goon.” — The Daily Show "Blissfully ignorant." — Salon “Probably the smarmiest fuck on the planet.” — Gawker “Jesse Watters is even more stupid than I originally gave him credit for. I mean, surprisingly ignorant. Which I kinda knew, but still.” — Soledad O'Brien “A Fox News reporter with a Stiffler-esque swagger who does not tend to break actual news.” — New Yorker
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Why We Did It
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTim is a supremely gifted storyteller who writes with brutal honesty and stylish gallows humor about the GOP’s toxic mix of opportunists, joy riders, and grifters who enabled Donald Trump’s rise and guaranteed his enduring grip on the Republican Party. Tim takes a scalpel to the malignant tumor smothering American democracy by dissecting his own friends and onetime colleagues. The most valuable contribution of Tim’s book may be the anthropological examination of just how little separates a ‘normal’ Republican from an activist working to overthrow a free and fair presidential election. — Nicolle Wallace Tim’s smart and witty takes on the current madness of our political times has been my balm of Gilead. In this book, Tim examines what makes some people abandon their principles to align with the current center of power and what makes others hold fast to their convictions in spite of finding themselves suddenly on the outs. As a former Republican partisan, Tim breaks it all down in precise bombs of truth and keen insight into some of the more awful truths of human nature when it comes to the allure of power. — Jane Lynch Mea culpa and tell-all, Tim Miller’s Why We Did It reveals why and how a generation of Republican politicos bent the knee to a president so many of them privately feared and despised. — David Frum From any dark experience springs something hopeful and good. In the Trump years, that bright side has been Tim and his compatriots who took up arms to fight the MAGA scourge. Before this book, I understood why the crazies and kooks went along with Trump, but now I fully grasp why smart, supposedly ‘normal’ Republicans did, too. Tim’s observations are clear-eyed, wise, brutally honest, and darkly hilarious. Everyone should read this book, especially fellow Democrats who want to better understand our political foes. — James Carville When the history of this era is written, the dominant question will likely be, How did this happen? Tim Miller’s Why We Did It offers a crucial insider’s answer to that question. It’s a must-read report from the belly of the beast detailing how the unimaginable becomes inevitable. Looking back at a career in politics and being horrified at what you were part of is not the most fun exercise in life. Tim examines his role with clear honesty, sadness, and an amusing sense of the absurd. This is a big, important book. Read it. — Stuart Stevens
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Oxford University Press, USA Debating Democracys Discontent Essays on American Politics Law and Public Philosophy
Book SynopsisA critique of Michael Sandel's "Democracy's Discontent". Sandel's liberal and feminist critics square off with his communitarian and civic republican sympathizers in a lively and wide-ranging discussion spanning constitutional law, culture, and political economy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Quest for a Post-Liberal Public Philosophy ; PART 1. REVIVING CIVIC VIRTUE ; 1. . The Retrieval of Civic Virtue: A Critical Appreciation of Sandel's Democracy's Discontent ; 2. Virtue En Mass ; 3. Reworking Sandel's Republicanism ; PART 2. TOWARD AN AMERICAN PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY ; 4. Political Economy and the Politics of Virtue: US Public Philosophy at Century's End ; 5. The Encumbered American Self ; 6. A Public Philosophy for the Professional-Managerial Class ; 7. Notes of a Jewish Episcopalian: Gender as a Language of Class; Religion as a Dialect of Liberalism ; PART 3. LIBERAL REPUBLICANISM ; 8. A Defense of Minimalist Liberalism ; 9. Michael Sandel and Richard Rorty: Two Models of the Republic ; 10. Liberal Egalitarianism and Civic Republicanism: Friends or Enemies? ; 11. Moral Status and the Status of Morality in Political Liberalism ; 12. Sandel's Liberal Politics ; PART 4. LIVING WITH DIFFERENCE ; 13. Michael Sandel's America ; 14. Moral Dialogues: A Communitarian Core Element ; 15. Can This Republic be Saved? ; 16. Civic Republicanism and Civic Pluralism: The Silent Struggle of Michael Sandel ; 17. Living with Difference ; PART 5. LAW, MORALS, AND PRIVATE LIVES ; 18. Unencumbered Individuals and Embedded Selves: Reasons to Resist Dichotomous Thinking in Family Law ; 19. The Right of Privacy in Sandel's Procedural Republic ; 20. Gay Marriage and Liberal Constitutionalism: Two Mistakes ; PART 6. SELF-GOVERNMENT AND DEMOCRATIC DISCONTENT ; 21. Fusion Republicanism ; 22. Corporate Speech and Civic Virtue ; 23. Federalism as a Cure for Democracy's Discontent? ; PART 7. A REPLY TO MY CRITICS ; 24. A Reply to My Critics
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Oxford University Press, USA Liberalism as Ideology
Book SynopsisLiberalism is the dominant ideology of our time, yet its character remains the subject of intense scholarly and political controversy. Debates about the liberal political tradition - about its history, its central philosophical commitments, its implications for political practice - lie at the very heart of the discipline of political theory. Many outstanding political theorists have contributed to the growing sophistication of these debates in recent years, but the original voice of Michael Freeden deserves particular attention. In the course of a body of work that spans over thirty years, Freeden''s iconoclastic contributions have posed important challenges to the dominant understandings of liberal ideology, history, and theory. Such work has sought to redefine the very essence of what it is to be a liberal. This book brings together an international group of historians, philosophers, and political scientists to evaluate the impact of Freeden''s work and to reassess its central claimsTrade ReviewFreeden has made... a distinguished contribution * Dr Tudor Jones, Journal of Liberal History *Although Liberalism as Idealogy is a Festschrift, it is not the banal celebration sometimes associated with the genre. In this case the contributors make good their ebullient praise for the dedicatee with the intellectal nergy and analytical creativity with which they fill the volume's pages. * Robert A. Ballingall, History of Polical Thought *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; List of Contributors ; Preface: Return of the Native ; Introduction ; PART I: LIBERAL LANGUAGES ; 1. A Cautious Embrace: Reflections on (Left) Liberalism and Utopia ; 2. Socialism and the New Liberalism ; 3. Liberalisms in India: An Exploratory Sketch ; 4. Liberalism and American Stories of Peoplehood ; 5. The Liberal Dilemma: The Economic and the Social, and the Need for a European Contextualization of a Concept with Universal Pretensions ; 6. The Problem of Political Parties in Western Liberalism, 1868-1968 ; PART II: IDEOLOGIES AND POLITICAL THEORY ; 7. Liberalism and Analytical Political Philosophy ; 8. Political Ideology and Political Theory: Reflections on an Awkward Partnership ; 9. Ideology, Political Philosophy, and the Interpretive Enterprise: A View from the Other Side ; 10. Civil Society and the Reconstruction of the Public Sphere: Ideologies between Theory and Politics ; 11. In Defence of Political Understanding? ; 12. Getting 'Real' About Political Ideas: Conceptual Morphology and the Realist Critique of Anglo-American Political Philosophy ; 13. The Professional Responsibilities of the Political Theorist ; Michael Freeden: A Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Why Political Liberalism
Book SynopsisIn Why Political Liberalism? Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls''s reasons for taking his so-called political turn. Weithman takes Rawls at his word that justice as fairness was recast as a form of political liberalism because of an inconsistency Rawls found in his early treatment of social stability. He argues that the inconsistency is best seen by identifying the threats to stability with which the early Rawls was concerned. One of those threats, often overlooked by Rawls''s readers, is the threat that the justice of a well-ordered society would be undermined by a generalized prisoner''s dilemma. Showing how the Rawls of A Theory of Justice tried to avert that threat shows that the much-neglected third part of that book is of considerably greater philosophical interest, and has considerably more unity of focus, than is generally appreciated. Weithman painstakingly reconstructs Rawls''s attempts to show that a just society would be stabTrade Reviewnot only a convincing rebuttal of the standard story ... but more importantly, a detailed reconstruction of the parts of the argument Rawls ultimately found to be wanting, the flaws Rawls discovered there, and the ways that the pieces of the later work serve to fix those problems. ... Weithman's reconstruction of both the original argument in A Theory of Justice and the later, political, replacement, are masterpieces of close, almost scholastic, exegesis. * Anthony Simon Laden, Mind *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; List of Tables ; Introduction ; 1. The Public Basis of View ; 2. Stability and Congruence ; 3. Ideals and Inconsistency ; 4. The Acquisition of Four Desires ; 5. Thin Reasons to be Just ; 6. The Argument from Love and Justice ; 7. Kantian Congruence and the Unified Self ; 8. The Great Unraveling ; 9. The Political Ideals of Justice as Fairness ; 10. Comprehensive Reasons to be Just ; Conclusion
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Spains First Democracy The Second Republic 193136
Book SynopsisPayne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a consistent and detailed interpretation, demonstrating striking parallels to the German Weimar Republic.
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Yale University Press The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain
Book SynopsisBetween 1830 and 1886, Liberals dominated British politics. Focusing on the strategies of successive Liberal leaders, this study gives an overview of that dominance and argues that liberalism was a much more coherent force than has generally been recognized by historians.
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Yale University Press On Liberal Revolution
Book SynopsisA collection of writings by one of Italy's most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (1901-1926). In 35 thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes a challenging notion of liberalism as a revolutionary theory of both the individual and social and political movements.
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WW Norton & Co The New Radicalism in America 18891963 The Intellectual as a Social Type
Book SynopsisExtraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject.-Newsweek
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World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press The Left is Seldom Right
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Launching Liberalism On Lockean Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisA reflection on the work of John Locke. The text explores the complexity of the Locke's engagement with his philosophical and theological predecessors, his effect on later liberal thinkers, and his success in transforming the political understanding of the Anglo-American world.Trade ReviewThis collection is not only a set of important essays on Locke, but also a major contribution to our understanding of how Locke's thought informs American political thought, both at the founding and as a critical voice in key contemporary debates in political theory. This now constitutes the most learned and philosophically profound presentation of Lockean thought that has appeared in the past generation. THOMAS L. PANGLE, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRIT OF MODERN REPUBLICANISM: THE MORAL VISION OF THE AMERICAN FOUNDERS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOCKE
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Pluto Press Reclaiming the Nation The Return of the National Question in Africa Asia and Latin America
Book SynopsisCompares the trajectories of states and societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America under neoliberalism.Trade Review'This book is about the new nationalist resurgence [against neo-liberalism]. It is the work of a committed and engaged scholarship, one which does not pretend to be neutral in the struggle between imperialism and the working people' -- Issa Shivji, Mwalimu Nyerere University Professor, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania'Provides essential clues to understand the present nature of the state in the periphery and to re-connect the South through all its dimensions' -- Gladys Lechini, Professor of International Relations, National University of Rosario, Argentina'Provides a holistic and systematic investigation of the relevance of the National Question in the contemporary South. It is one of the finest collections to engage with the relevant issues at the current juncture' -- Praveen Jha, Centre for Economics Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, IndiaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Fall and Rise of the National Question, by Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros Part I: Africa 2. Rethinking Pan-Africanism, Nationalism and the New Regionalism, by Thandika Mkandawire 3. Nation-Building and State Fracture in Sudan, by Mahmood Mamdani 4. After Zimbabwe: State, Nation and Region in Africa, by Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros Part II: Asia 5. Peripheral States in Asia under Neoliberalism and After, by Korkut Boratav 6. The National Question in India, by Sandeep Chachra 7. The Palestinian National Question: Settler-Colonialism and the International Power Regime, by Jamil Hilal 8. The National Question and the Unfinished Revolution in Nepal, by Hari Roka 9. Neoliberalism in Turkey, by Cem Somel Part III: Latin America 10. Latin American Thinking on the State and Development: From Statelessness to Statelessness, by Atilio A. Boron 11. The National Question and the Autonomy of the State in Bolivia, by Lorgio Orellana Aillon 12. Kirchner’s Argentina: In Search of a New International Presence, by Javier A. Vadell 13. State and Nation in Brazil: Old Questions, New Challenges, by Sebastião C. Velasco e Cruz & Reginaldo C. Moraes 14. Cleavages in South America and the Role of Venezuela, by Rafael Villa 15. National States: Which Way Forward?, by Samir Amin Notes on Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fixing the System A History of Populism Ancient and Modern
Book SynopsisPopulism is distinguished from other political movements by its insistence on two things conspicuously missing from modern systems of political economy: genuine democracy based on local citizen assemblies, and the widespread distribution among the population of privately-owned economic capital. This book offers an historical account of populism.Trade Review"Fixing the System is, as it were, a rare new book, one in which a serious political theorist does startlingly original and important thinking about populism, democracy, and our present American society. Tracing the history of populism through two and a half centuries, Kuzminski eviscerates the allegedly democratic American system as collective authoritarianism and presents populism rooted in decentralized economic justice as an approximately egalitarian democratic alternative. Expect, if you read Kuzminski, to be shaken up where it most matters: in your mind."- Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer and co-founder of the Alliance for Democracy."Kuzminski (philosophy, Hartwick College) laments the substitution of representative democracy and capitalist economics, amounting to plutocracy, for a genuinely democratic system of direct popular rule by citizens who "do not differ significantly in wealth and power."...Kuzminski's rhetoric is shrill, his political and economic judgments unsupported by factual evidence, and his prose repetitive and filled with typos. Summing Up: Not recommended." - D. Schaefer, CHOICE, January 2009 -- Negative"This gracefully written, broadly researched study is a work of many aspects. It is part history and part philosophy and also has a psychological dimension....More important: Fixing the System is sound intellectual history, a serious contribution to the study of American economic and political thought. Kuzminski is an intellectual, a thinker, and all the populist writers, from Phaleas via Aristotle through Harrington, Jefferson, Kellogg et al., have been intellectuals, thinkers. They presented their ideas in books and essays and in letters. They did not institute their ideas or make notable efforts to institute them. Kuzminski's notable contribution is not in the presentation of practical measure to achieve political and economic equality but to present an ideal system for that achievement...This is a serious study by a deeply thoughtful observer of present-day politics and economics and a student of the complexities of these activities through the centuries...It should be read by anyone interested in the human past and the human present." -New York History, Spring 2008"Focusing primarily on populism in the West, Kuzminski traces populism's origins back to the days of Greek city states such as Athens. He also offers a withering critique of the state of most Western democracies, which he views as corporate oligarchies that perpetuate themselves by means of plebiscites that only provide passive popular acquiescence to the chosen policies of an elite. And he writes that no system can be called democratic unless citizens are owners of property and have a direct, active involvement in the formation of the policies of their government. Populists claim that ‘property for all' means the widespread personal ownership of private capital sufficient to establish the relative economic independence of citizens. When none are rich enough to dominate others, and none are poor enough to be dominated, the public rather than the private interest is likely to be served."David Isenberg, The Journal of Peace ResearchTable of ContentsChapter One: The Insight of Phaleas; Chapter Two: Kinship Precedents; Chapter Three: European Populism; Chapter Four: American Populism; Appendix: Jefferson's Ward Republics; Bibliography.
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Sea Raven Press Confederacy 101 Amazing Facts You Never Knew About Americas Oldest Political Tradition
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