TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medearis,John
TI  - Why Democracy Is Oppositional
SN  - 9780674286627
AV  - JC423 .M3875 2015eb
U1  - 321.8 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Equality
KW  - Opposition (Political science)
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Ironic Place of Movements in Democratic Theory --; 2. Episodes in the History of Alienation and Democratic Theory --; 3. A Contemporary Theory of Alienation --; 4. Oppositional Democracy --; 5. Contesting the Welfare State --; Epilogue. On Alienation and the Contemporary Security State --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674286627
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674286627
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674286627/original
ER  -