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Author Crenson, Matthew A., 1943- author.

Title Downsizing Democracy : How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public / Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages)
Contents From popular to personal democracy -- The rise and fall of the citizen -- Elections without voters -- Political parties: the old patronage and the new -- Disunited we stand -- From masses to mailing lists -- The jurisprudence of personal democracy -- Movements without members -- Privatizing the public -- Does anyone need citizens?
Analysis Constitution: government & the state
Notes The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Democracy -- United States -- Citizen participation
Political participation -- United States
Politics and government
Political participation
Democracy -- Citizen participation
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Ginsberg, Benjamin
ISBN 9781421430683
1421430681