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_dDLC
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050 0 0 _aJC423
_b.I87 2023
082 0 0 _a320.56
_223/eng/20230105
100 1 _aIssacharoff, Samuel,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aDemocracy unmoored :
_bpopulism and the corruption of popular sovereignty /
_cSamuel Issacharoff.
250 _aFirst Edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c[2023]
300 _avii, 286 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
365 _bRs. 2792.00
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- The Frayed Social Fabric of Democracy -- The Capacity to Govern -- The Political Institutions of Democracy -- Populism and the Here and Now -- Caudillos in Command -- Judicial Intercession -- Corruption Simpliciter -- Institutional Wreckage -- The Exposed Underpinnings of American Democracy -- Epilogue.
520 _a"About a decade ago, I found myself alone for dinner one evening in Buenos Aires, the city of my birth. I had a lecture to give the next day and I had reserved the time alone to prepare over dinner in a typical neighborhood restaurant. Such a "boliche," in the local porteƱo slang, was a comfortable setting to have a meal. I sat down with typical Argentine fare and the inescapable good wine and turned to my lecture materials. I soon found myself distracted by an excellent soccer match shown on a large screen tv that had been brought in for the occasion. A couple of glasses of tinto, the reds of Mendoza province, and a close football game, and I accepted that lecture preparation was concluded"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aDemocracy.
650 0 _aPopulism.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aIssacharoff, Samuel.
_tDemocracy unmoored
_bFirst Edition.
_dNew York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
_z9780197674772
_w(DLC) 2022044662
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