Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

by Sheldon S. Wolin

Book Overview

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost clich . But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated , Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114589X
• ISBN13: 9780691145891
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.3"