Downsizing Democracy : How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public /
Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg.
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Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2002. Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License.
From popular to personal democracy -- The rise and fall of the citizen -- Elections without voters -- Political parties: the old patronage and the new -- Disunited we stand -- From masses to mailing lists -- The jurisprudence of personal democracy -- Movements without members -- Privatizing the public -- Does anyone need citizens?
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Democracy--Citizen participation. Political participation. Politics and government. Participation politique--États-Unis. Political participation--United States. Democracy--Citizen participation.--United States
United States. États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement. United States--Politics and government.