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050 00 $aJC423$b.R246 2009
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100 1 $aRahe, Paul Anthony.
245 10 $aSoft despotism, democracy's drift :$bMontesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville & the modern prospect /$cPaul A. Rahe.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$cc2009.
300 $axxiii, 374 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-349) and index.
505 0 $aThe Modern Republic Examined. Principles ; Uneasiness -- The Modern Republic Revisited. The Enlightenment Indicted ; Sociability as a Malady ; Citizenship as a Remedy -- The Democratic Republic Considered. Democratic Despotism ; American Exceptionalism ; The French Disease ; A Despotism of Administrators.
520 $a"In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To discern the meaning of this malaise we must investigate the nature of liberal democracy, says the author of this provocative book, and he undertakes to do so through a detailed investigation of the thinking of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Paul A. Rahe argues that these political thinkers anticipated the modern liberal republic's propensity to drift in the direction of 'soft despotism' -- a condition that arises within a democracy when paternalistic state power expands and gradually undermines the spirit of self-government. Such an eventuality, feared by Tocqueville in the nineteenth century, has now become a reality throughout the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. So Rahe asserts, and he explains what must be done to reverse this unfortunate trend."--Publisher description.
650 0 $aDemocracy.
650 0 $aRepublicanism.
600 10 $aMontesquieu, Charles de Secondat,$cbaron de,$d1689-1755.
600 10 $aTocqueville, Alexis de,$d1805-1859.
600 10 $aRousseau, Jean-Jacques,$d1712-1778.
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