Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism /

Main Author: Wolin, Sheldon S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Myth in the making
  • 2. Totalitarianism's inversion : beginnings of the imaginary of a permanent global war
  • 3. Totalitarianism's inversion, democracy's perversion
  • 4. The new world of terror
  • 5. The utopian theory of superpower : the official version
  • 6. The dynamics of transformation
  • 7. The dynamics of the archaic
  • 8. The politics of superpower : managed democracy
  • 9. Intellectual elites against democracy
  • 10. Domestic politics in the era of superpower and empire
  • 11. Inverted totalitarianism : antecedents and precedents
  • 12. Demotic moments
  • 13. Democracy's prospects : looking backwards.