| ISBN |
1138212261 (pbk.)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9781138212268 (pbk.)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9781315450858 (ebook)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
314.8953
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| 個人著者標目 |
Mezey, Michael L.
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| 本タイトル |
(S)electing the president :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
the perils of democracy /
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| 著者名 |
Michael L. Mezey.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
New York, NY :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Routledge,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2018.
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| 数量 |
vii, 183 p. ;
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| 大きさ |
23 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| 内容注記 |
Candidate quality and the presidential election of 2016 -- Democracy, representation, and elections -- The founders and presidential selection -- Democratization and political parties -- The democratized nomination process -- The democratized media -- Charisma, demagoguery, populism, and celebrity -- Democratization and presidentialism -- The perils of democracy.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
Selecting political leaders by popular election is an unquestioned hallmark of representative democracies-the institutional manifestation of Lincoln's promise of a government of the people and by the people. But in 2016, Lincoln's promise seems to have given way to Hamilton's nightmare-with his worries that popular elections would produce demagogues who paid an "obsequious court to the people," appealing to their passions and prejudices rather than to their reason. This book examines the commitment to the widest level of participation among the largest number of citizens in the selection of the president. It looks at two salient characteristics of our current presidential election environment that bring the wisdom of this commitment into question: the declining influence of political parties and the communication revolution in the form of the internet, social media, and cable television. Ultimately, Mezey asks whether our now fully democratized presidential selection process has in fact diminished the quality of our presidential candidates and the campaigns they run, whether the turn to demagoguery that the founders feared has materialized, what the consequences of our presidential selection process have been for American government, and whether or not it would be valuable to rethink our wholehearted commitment to popular election of the president. His answers do not topple our commitment to popular elections but rather point the way toward improving the quality of both participation and democracy.
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| 一般件名 |
Presidents -- Election. -- United States
Political participation -- United States. |
| 資料情報1 |
『(S)electing the president :
the perils of democracy /』 Michael L. Mezey. Routledge, 2018.
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/314.8/M61/S
資料コード：7109370133）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352027187 |
