Downsizing Democracy How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public
Originally publushed in 2002. In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limit...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2020
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