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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aUrbinati, Nadia
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245 1 0 _aDemocracy Disfigured :
_bOpinion, Truth, and the People /
_cNadia Urbinati.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 Democracy's Diarchy --
_t2 Unpolitical Democracy --
_t3 The Populist Power --
_t4 The Plebiscite of the Audience and the Politics of Passivity --
_tConclusion --
_tNOTES --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy. Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfiguration: the unpolitical, the populist, and the plebiscitarian. Each undermines a crucial division that a well-functioning democracy must preserve: the wall separating the free forum of public opinion from governmental institutions that enact the will of the people. Unpolitical democracy delegitimizes political opinion in favor of expertise. Populist democracy radically polarizes the public forum in which opinion is debated. And plebiscitary democracy overvalues the aesthetic and nonrational aspects of opinion. For Urbinati, democracy entails a permanent struggle to make visible the issues that citizens deem central to their lives. Opinion is thus a form of action as important as the mechanisms that organize votes and mobilize decisions. Urbinati focuses less on the overt enemies of democracy than on those who pose as its friends: technocrats wedded to procedure, demagogues who make glib appeals to "the people," and media operatives who, given their preference, would turn governance into a spectator sport and citizens into fans of opposing teams.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy.
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