Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy - Brossura

Higley, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0742553612 ISBN 13: 9780742553613

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

Riassunto

This study argues that political regimes are created and sustained by elites. Liberal democracies are no exception; they depend, above all, on the formation and persistence of consensually united elites. John Higley and Michael Burton explore the circumstances and ways in which such elites have formed in the modern world. They identify pressures that may cause a basic change in the structure and functioning of elites in established liberal democracies, and they ask if the elites clustered around George W. Bush are a harbinger of this change. The authors' argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.

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L'autore:

John Higley is professor of government and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and chair of the Research Committee on Political Elites of the International Political Science Association. Michael Burton is professor of sociology at Loyola College in Maryland.

Product Description:

Book by John Higley Michael Burton

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0742553612
• ISBN 13: 9780742553613
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 238