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005			20240726105436.0
008			140303s2014 mau ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780674726383 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aJC423 _b.D466 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aUrbinati, Nadia, _d1955- _e1
245	1	0	_aDemocracy disfigured : _bopinion, truth, and the people / _cNadia Urbinati.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (307 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aDemocracy's diarchy -- _tUnpolitical democracy -- _tThe populist power -- _tThe plebiscite of the audience and the politics of passivity.
520	0		_a"In Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy. Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfiguration: the unpolitical, the populist, and the plebiscitarian. Each undermines a crucial division that a well-functioning democracy must preserve: the wall separating the free forum of public opinion from governmental institutions that enact the will of the people. Unpolitical democracy delegitimizes political opinion in favor of expertise. Populist democracy radically polarizes the public forum in which opinion is debated. And plebiscitary democracy overvalues the aesthetic and nonrational aspects of opinion. For Urbinati, democracy entails a permanent struggle to make visible the issues that citizens deem central to their lives. Opinion is thus a form of action as important as the mechanisms that organize votes and mobilize decisions. Urbinati focuses less on the overt enemies of democracy than on those who pose as its friends: technocrats wedded to procedure, demagogues who make glib appeals to 'the people,' and media operatives who, given their preference, would turn governance into a spectator sport and citizens into fans of opposing teams"--publisher's description.
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650		0	_aDemocracy.
650		0	_aDemocracy _xPublic opinion.
650		0	_aPopulism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=660119&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell