The Ideology of Democratism
Emily B. Finley, "The Ideology of Democratism"
English | ISBN: 0197642292 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 0197642292 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A unique reinterpretation of democracy that shows how history's most vocal champions of democracy from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls have contributed to a pervasive, anti-democratic ideology, effectively redefining democracy to mean "rule by the elites."
The rise of global populism reveals a tension in Western thinking about democracy. Warnings about the "populist threat" to democracy and "authoritarian" populism are now commonplace. However, as Emily B. Finley argues in
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