| #1702151 in Books | 2014-02-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x6.25 x1.25l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 320 pages|||A beautifully wrought reflection on the 'disfigurement' of democracy. Deploying the ancient analogy and image of the body--as in 'body politic'--Urbinati traces the theoretical sources and consequences of three deformations that have been introduced ove
In Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy.
Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfiguration: the unpolitical, the populist, and the plebiscitarian. Each undermines a crucial division that a well-functioning democracy must preserve: the wall separat...
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