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Democratic statecraft : political realism and popular power /
"Shows that the Western tradition of statecraft, long considered the method of tyrants and oligarchs, can steer our thinking about democracy in bold new directions"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction Realism and Democracy; A Massacre in Paris; Realism and Idealism; The Theory of Statecraft; Synopsis of the Book; 2 Reason of State and Realism's Two Dimensions; Missions in a New World; Pragmatism and Skepticism; The Socratic Option: Moralistic Utopianism; The Ciceronian Option: Moralistic Pragmatism; The Tacitist Option: Skeptical Utopianism; The Sophistic Option: Skeptical Pragmatism; The Enigma of Montaigne; Reason of State: Between Cicero and Tacitus; Systemic Utility and Democratic Regimes; Models of Democracy.
- 3 From the Sophists to Aristotle Institutions LieJason against Justice; The Sophists' Realism; Thrasymachus the Realist; Socrates the Idealist; Sophists Galore; Aristotle against Expertise; The Ordeal of Alcibiades; Political Justice and Partial Law; Popular Judgment Defended; Pragmatic Democracy; Ostracism; Anti-Formal Realism; 4 From Aristotle to Machiavelli Democracy Bites; Resurrection in Sicily; Sex, Politics, and Realism; Two Tyrants; Secrets and Mirrors; Renaissance Pragmatism and Aristotle; Machiavelli's Pragmatism; Plutarch's Machiavellians; The Rhetorical Aristotle.
- Rhetoric and Ethical SkepticismThe Skeptical Machiavelli; Vox Populi; Popular Power Institutionalized; Democratic Skepticism?; 5 From Machiavelli to the Puritans Fire Fights Fire; A Riot in London; Puritan Pragmatism; Cromwell's Model; The Levellers' Statecraft; Winthrop's Ordeal; New England's Books; Providential Populism; Institutionalized Accountability; Unicameralism and Machiavelli; Anti-Formal Reform; 6 From the Puritans to the Populists Money Never Sleeps; The Death of Parrington; A Puritan Crusade; Formal Institutions Decoded; Democracy and Power; Postwar Skepticism and Satire.
- A Machiavellian in New YorkVoting and Elections; The Party Duopoly; Moralism and Pragmatism in 1896; Statecraft, Parties, and Elections; 7 Conclusion Power and Paradoxes; Stories, Guns, and Money; Institutions Lie; Democracy Bites; Fire Fights Fire; Money Never Sleeps; Means and Ends; Real Democracy?; References; Index.