Voting Rites: The Devolution of American Politics - Rilegato

Hirschbein, Ron

 
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Does it really matter if a voter decides to vote or, as a significant number of Americans do each election, not vote? Ron Hirschbein explores this issue and shows why enfranchisement cannot be understood unless it is placed in context and history. Clearly, the meaning of a vote depends upon the situation: a vote cast among the 400 of Athens or in the College of Cardinals has one significance; this is considerably different from pulling a lever every four years in a mass society of spectacles and commodities. Hirschbein also examines how voting was transformed from an expression of the political will of the Athenian polity into a sacred natural right-only to be turned to a ritual of mass society.

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RON HIRSCHBEIN is Coordinator of War and Peace Studies at California State University, Chico. Professor Hirschbein has written extensively on public policy issues. Among his earlier works is What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came? Interpreting International Crises (Praeger, 1997).



RON HIRSCHBEIN is Coordinator of War and Peace Studies at California State University, Chico. Professor Hirschbein has written extensively on public policy issues. Among his earlier works is What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came? Interpreting International Crises (Praeger, 1997).



RON HIRSCHBEIN is Coordinator of War and Peace Studies at California State University, Chico. Professor Hirschbein has written extensively on public policy issues. Among his earlier works is What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came? Interpreting International Crises (Praeger, 1997).

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