Downsizing Democracy How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public

• Main Author: Crenson, Matthew A. (auth)
• Other Authors: Ginsberg, Benjamin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
• Subjects: Constitution: government & the state
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...