The Antiegalitarian Mutation : The Failure of Institutional Politics in Liberal Democracies / Arturo Zampaglione, Nadia Urbinati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urbinati, Nadia, author.

Zampaglione, Arturo, author.

Contributor:

Thom, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Western countries.

Democracy.

Social change--Political aspects--Western countries.

Social change.

Western countries--Politics and government--21st century.

Western countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 191 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The twin crises of immigration and mass migration brought new urgency to the balance of power between progressive, humanitarian groups and their populist opponents. In the United States and many European countries, the outcome of this struggle is uncertain, with a high chance that the public will elect more politicians who support an agenda of nativism and privatization. The Antiegalitarian Mutation makes a forceful case that those seeking to limit citizenship and participation, political or otherwise, have co-opted democracy. Political and legal institutions are failing to temper the interests of people with economic power against the needs of the many, leading to an unsustainable rise in income inequality and a new oligarchy rapidly assuming broad social control. For Nadia Urbinati and Arturo Zampaglione, this insupportable state of affairs is not an inevitable outcome of robust capitalism but rather the result of an ideological war waged against social democracy by the neoliberal governments of Reagan, Thatcher, and others. These giants of free-market fundamentalism secured power through legitimate political means, and only by taking back our political institutions can we remedy the social ills that threaten to unmake our world. That, according to The Antiegalitarian Mutation, is democracy's challenge and its ongoing promise.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Zampaglione, Arturo

1. A Great Mutation

2. The Value of Democracy

3. The Decline of Universalism

4. The "Few" and the "Many"

5. The Secession from Democracy

6. Differences and Identity Politics

Index

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780231541930

0231541937

OCLC:

979683331