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(S)electing the President - The Perils of Democracy (Paperback)
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(S)electing the President - The Perils of Democracy (Paperback)
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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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