Stepping up to the plate : America, and Australian democracy / Graham Maddox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maddox, Graham, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Australia--Public opinion.

Democracy.

Political culture--Australia--American influences.

Political culture.

Australia--Politics and government--21st century.

Australia.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Vic.: MUP Academic Digital, 2016.

Summary:

Americans call themselves a democracy, but they are not. America has redefined democracy to make it conform to the capitalist economy and rule by wealth elites. When American leaders say they wish to make the world safe for democracy, they really mean that they want the world, including Australia, to subsume itself into this US project. Any process resulting in Australia absorbing more of the United States' corporatist political culture will result in the serious erosion of our own democratic ideals. Australia should resist this, especially at a time when such corporatist politics is losing its legitimation. We are better served by our own robust system of democracy.

Contents:

Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 America and Australian English; 2 Americanization and political culture; 3 Hegemony without representation; 4 The fallacy of market ideology; 5 Two constitutions; 6 The foundations of classical democracy and its American trajectory; 7 Under the influence: Dialectical democracy in Australia; 8 The culture of death; 9 Conclusion: The fractured fragment; Bibliography; Index

ISBN:

9780522870305

0522870309