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Losurdo Domenico - Democracy Or Bonapartism Two Centuries Of War On Democracy - Hardcover
Losurdo Domenico - Democracy Or Bonapartism Two Centuries Of War On Democracy - Hardcover
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Description: How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule The history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid - twentieth century it was still impeded by forms of censitary racial and sexual discrimination which proved especially stubborn in countries with the most rooted liberal tradition. Moreover no sooner had it been achieved than universal suffrage was subject to internal depletion that reduced the exercise of political rights to the acclamation of a leader vested with very wide powers. In and through a complex historical process Bonapartism has assumed its current 'soft form involving orderly competition and succession and resorting to the iron fist only in emergency situations. The electoral system most conducive to this regime seems to be one involving single - member constituencies. Cutting out organized parties with programmes and courtesy also of the gigantic concentration of the mass media depriving the subaltern classes of any political expression it reduces 'democracy to a contest between competing leaders who are the interpreters exclusively oflocal realities or interests over and above which towers the figure of the nation's charismatic leader. The United States represents the primary country - laboratory of the 'soft Bonapartism that has also emerged in Italy and which seems set to become the political regime of our time.
Title: Democracy Or Bonapartism Two Centuries Of War On Democracy
Author(s): Losurdo Domenico
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784787318
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Political Science & Theory
Description: How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule The history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid - twentieth century it was still impeded by forms of censitary racial and sexual discrimination which proved especially stubborn in countries with the most rooted liberal tradition. Moreover no sooner had it been achieved than universal suffrage was subject to internal depletion that reduced the exercise of political rights to the acclamation of a leader vested with very wide powers. In and through a complex historical process Bonapartism has assumed its current 'soft form involving orderly competition and succession and resorting to the iron fist only in emergency situations. The electoral system most conducive to this regime seems to be one involving single - member constituencies. Cutting out organized parties with programmes and courtesy also of the gigantic concentration of the mass media depriving the subaltern classes of any political expression it reduces 'democracy to a contest between competing leaders who are the interpreters exclusively oflocal realities or interests over and above which towers the figure of the nation's charismatic leader. The United States represents the primary country - laboratory of the 'soft Bonapartism that has also emerged in Italy and which seems set to become the political regime of our time.
Title: Democracy Or Bonapartism Two Centuries Of War On Democracy
Author(s): Losurdo Domenico
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784787318
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Political Science & Theory
