Democracy Erodes from the Top : Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe / Larry M. BARTELS / Princeton University Press (2023)  

Titre : Democracy Erodes from the Top : Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Larry M. BARTELS Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2023 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691244501 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracyAn apparent explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy Erodes from the Top reveals that the real crisis stems not from an increasingly populist public but from political leaders who exploit or mismanage the chronic vulnerabilities of democracy.In this provocative book, Larry Bartels dismantles the pervasive myth of a populist wave in contemporary European public opinion. While there has always been a substantial reservoir of populist sentiment, Europeans are no less trusting of their politicians and parliaments than they were two decades ago, no less enthusiastic about European integration, and no less satisfied with the workings of democracy. Anti-immigrant sentiment has waned. Electoral support for right-wing populist parties has increased only modestly, reflecting the idiosyncratic successes of populist entrepreneurs, the failures of mainstream parties, and media hype. Europe’s most sobering examples of democratic backsliding—in Hungary and Poland—occurred not because voters wanted authoritarianism but because conventional conservative parties, once elected, seized opportunities to entrench themselves in power.By demonstrating the inadequacy of conventional bottom-up interpretations of Europe’s political crisis, Democracy Erodes from the Top turns our understanding of democratic politics upside down. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88957060 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=596416

Unequal Democracy : The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition Ed. 2 / Larry M. BARTELS / Princeton University Press (2016)  

Titre : Unequal Democracy : The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition Ed. 2 Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Larry M. BARTELS Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2016 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691172842 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the Obama era. One presents the Great Recession as a "stress test" of the American political system by analyzing the 2008 election and the impact of Barack Obama's "New New Deal" on the economic fortunes of the rich, middle class, and poor. The other assesses the politics of inequality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 2012 election, and the partisan gridlock of Obama’s second term. Larry Bartels offers a sobering account of the barriers to change posed by partisan ideologies and the political power of the wealthy. He also provides new analyses of tax policy, partisan differences in economic performance, the struggle to raise the minimum wage, and inequalities in congressional representation.President Obama identified inequality as "the defining challenge of our time." Unequal Democracy is the definitive account of how and why our political system has failed to rise to that challenge. Now more than ever, this is a book every American needs to read. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88957427 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=597155