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"The Paradox of American Democracy is a penetrating examination of our democracy that illuminates the forces and institutions that once enlivened it and now threaten to undermine it.".
"Judis revisits particular moments - the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the 1960s - to discover what makes democracy most efficacious and, consequently, most inefficacious. What has worked in the past is a balancing act between groups of elites - trade commissions, labor relations boards, policy groups - whose mandates are to act in the national interest and whose actions are governed by a disinterested pursuit of the common good.
Judis explains how the displacement of such elites by a new lobbying community in Washington has given rise to the cynicism that corrodes the current political system."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust
March 1, 2001, Routledge
in English
041593026X 9780415930260
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The paradox of American democracy: elites, special interests, and the betrayal of the public trust
2000, Pantheon Books
in English
067943254X 9780679432548
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"In the decades after World War II, a great debate took place among political scientists, historians, and philosophers about the nature of American democracy."
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