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The Antiegalitarian Mutation: The Failure of Institutional Politics in Liberal Democracies
Nadia Urbinati
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Description for The Antiegalitarian Mutation: The Failure of Institutional Politics in Liberal Democracies
Hardback. Translation of: La mutazione antiegualitaria. Translator(s): Thom, Martin. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPS; JPA; JPB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169844
SKU
V9780231169844
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About Nadia Urbinati
Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. Her books include Democracy Disfigured (2014) and A Cosmopolitanism of Nations (2009). Arturo Zampaglione is the New York correspondent for La Repubblica. Martin Thom is also the translator of Ruwen Ogien's Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics (Columbia, 2015) and ... Read more
Reviews for The Antiegalitarian Mutation: The Failure of Institutional Politics in Liberal Democracies
Nadia Urbinati is one of the most original thinkers of representative democracy in our time. In this set of wide-ranging and stimulating conversations, she uses theory and insights drawn from across the history of political thought to illuminate the profound challenges to political equality that we are witnessing in both Europe and the Americas today.
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