Can it happen here? : authoritarianism in America / edited by Cass R. Sunstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sunstein, Cass R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trump, Donald, 1946---Influence.

Trump, Donald.

Trump, Donald 1946---Influence.

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Politics and government.

Authoritarianism.

United States.

Authoritarianism--United States.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States--Politics and government.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Local Subjects:

Trump, Donald 1946---Influence.

Democracy--United States.

Authoritarianism--United States.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States--Politics and government.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xi, 481 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2018]

Summary:

"With the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both the left and right feared that America's 240-year-old grand experiment in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel, It can't happen here, written during the dark days of the 1930s, could finally be coming true. Is the democratic freedom that the United States symbolizes really secure? Can authoritarianism happen in America? [The editor] queried a number of the nation's leading thinkers. In this...collection of essays, these...thinkers and theorists explore the lessons of history, how democracies crumble, how propaganda works, and the role of the media, courts, elections, and 'fake news' in the modern political landscape--and what the future of the United States may hold."-- Back cover.

Contents:

The dictator's handbook, US edition / Eric A. Posner

Constitutional rot / Jack M. Balkin

Could fascism come to America? / Tyler Cowen

Lessons from the American founding / Cass R. Sunstein

Beyond elections: foreign interference with American democracy / Samantha Power

Paradoxes of the Deep State / Jack Goldsmith

How we lost constitutional democracy / Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq

On "It can't happen here" / Noah Feldman

Authoritarianism is not a momentary madness, but an eternal dynamic within liberal democracies / Karen Stenner and Jonathan Haidt

States of emergency / Bruce Ackerman

Another road to serfdom: cascading intolerance / Timur Kuran

The resistible rise of Louis Bonaparte / Jon Elster

Could mass detentions without process happen here? / Martha Minow

The commonsense presidency / Duncan J. Watts

Law and the slow-motion emergency / David A. Strauss

How democracies perish / Stephen Holmes

"It can't happen here": the lessons of history / Geoffrey R. Stone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Posner, Eric A., 1965- Dictator's handbook, US edition.

Balkin, J. M. Constitutional rot.

Cowen, Tyler. Could fascism come to America?

Sunstein, Cass R. Lessons from the American founding.

Power, Samantha. Beyond elections.

Goldsmith, Jack L. Paradoxes of the deep state.

Ginsburg, Tom. How we lost consitutional democracy.

Feldman, Noah, 1970- On "It can't happen here."

Stenner, Karen, 1964- Authoritarianism is not a momentary madness, but an eternal dynamic within liberal democracies.

Ackerman, Bruce A. States of emergency.

Kuran, Timur. Another road to serfdom.

Elster, Jon, 1940- Resistible rise of Louis Bonaparte.

Minow, Martha, 1954- Could mass detentions without process happen here?

Watts, Duncan J., 1971- Commonsense presidency.

Strauss, David A. Law and the slow-motion emergency.

Holmes, Stephen, 1948- How democracies perish.

Stone, Geoffrey R. "It can't happen here": the lessons of history.

ISBN:

9780062696199

006269619X

OCLC:

1026371786