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Democratic Statecraft - Political Realism and Popular Power (Paperback, New)
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Democratic Statecraft - Political Realism and Popular Power (Paperback, New)
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The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the
strategies and manoeuvres of privileged agents, whereas the theory
of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two
ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is
statecraft destined to remain the preserve of powerful elites,
leaving democracy to ineffectual idealists? J. S. Maloy
demonstrates that the Western tradition of statecraft, usually
considered the tool of tyrants and oligarchs, has in fact been
integral to the development of democratic thought. Five case
studies of political debate, ranging from ancient Greece to the
late nineteenth-century United States, illustrate how democratic
ideas can be relevant to the real world of politics instead of
reinforcing the idealistic delusions of conventional wisdom and
academic theory alike. The tradition highlighted by these cases
still offers resources for reconstructing our idea of popular
government in a realistic spirit - skeptical, pragmatic, and
relentlessly focused on power.
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