The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government, Revised Edition
By James A. Morone.
Description
This prize-winning book reinterprets more than 200 years of American political history as the interplay between the public’s dread of government power and its yearning for communal democracy. James Morone argues that Americans will never solve their collective problems as long as they instinctively fear all public power as a threat to liberty. This revised edition includes a new final chapter about contemporary populism, government bashing, and democratic wishes. Winner of the 1991 Gladys M. Kammerer Award “The Democratic Wish merits the highest compliments one can accord a ...
ISBN(s)
0300074654, 9780300074659