Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People 9780674726383

Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills besetting the body politic and offers a defense of the messy compromises that define d

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Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People
 9780674726383

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Introduction
1 Democracy’s Diarchy
2 Unpolitical Democracy
3 The Populist Power
4 The Plebiscite of the Audience and the Politics of Passivity
Conclusion
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

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