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Entrenchment : wealth, power, and the constitution of democratic societies /

An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealth Much of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment--efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo. That is why t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Starr, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the stakes of entrenchment
  • 1. Understanding entrenchment
  • 2. Aristocracy and inherited wealth
  • 3. Racial slavery as an entrenched contradiction
  • 4. The conservative design of liberal democracy
  • 5. Entrenching progressive change
  • 6. Democracy and the politics of entrenchment.