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Why Democracy Is Oppositional
John Medearis
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Description for Why Democracy Is Oppositional
Hardback. John Medearis argues that democracies face challenges which go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is inherently a fragile state of affairs because citizens create the very institutions that overwhelm them. Hostile threats are the product of their own collective activities, and preserving democracy will always entail struggle. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
Is infrequent voting the most we can expect from a free citizenry? Would democracy be more robust if our political discourse were more deliberative? John Medearis’s trenchant and trend-bucking work of political philosophy argues that democracies face significant challenges that go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is inherently a fragile state of affairs, he reminds us. Revisiting fundamental questions about the system in theory and practice, Why Democracy Is Oppositional helps us see why preserving democracy has always been—and will always be—a struggle.
As citizens of democracies seek political control over their destinies, they confront forces that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674725331
SKU
V9780674725331
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About John Medearis
John Medearis is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside.
Reviews for Why Democracy Is Oppositional
John Medearis takes the best of contemporary political theory and brings it face to face with the lived experience of real politics. The result is a fresh, new approach to democratic theory.
Marc Stears, University of Oxford Medearis argues that democratic practices and movements always produce unintended impediments to democracy, which in turn spur and sustain other movements and ... Read more
Marc Stears, University of Oxford Medearis argues that democratic practices and movements always produce unintended impediments to democracy, which in turn spur and sustain other movements and ... Read more