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This book critically examines the realities of liberal democracy: its elitism and non-accountability; and its inequalities and injustices. Participatory systems and movements, whether in Athens, seventeenth and nineteenth-century England, or South Africa 1970-90, are more effective in satisfying the democratic aspirations of the people and in curtailing ambitious elites than what is passed off now as 'democracy.'By interrogating contemporary democratic regimes in the United States, and in Botswana and South Africa, the severe limitations and constraints inherent in liberal democracy are highlighted. The need for a clear evaluation of what constitutes democracy emerges as a powerful message of Kenneth Good's argument.
Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic demonstrates that framing the
epidemic as a medical issue instead of an effect of moral failing
holds more potential for solving the epidemic through medical
treatment and reconnecting sufferers back to society. This
rhetorical move separates the opioid epidemic from the criminal and
immoral frames that were cast upon the crack epidemic and initial
framing of the AIDS epidemic. Popular culture and governmental
response case studies include: President Trump's March 19, 2018
address to the nation, ODMAP produced by the Washington/Baltimore
High Intensity Drug Trafficking in January 2017, news stories from
national sources dating from 2015 to 2020 about the chronic pain
management debate, two documentaries, Heroin(e) (2017) and One
Nation Under Stress: Deaths of Despair in the United States (2019),
and Ben is Back (2018).
This book critically examines the realities of liberal democracy;
its elitism and non-accountability; and its inequalities and
injustices. Participatory systems and movements, whether in Athens,
seventeenth and nineteenth century England, or South Africa
1970-1990, are more effective in satisfying the democratic
aspirations of the people and in curtailing ambitious elites, than
what is passed off now as 'democracy'. By interrogating
contemporary democratic regimes, in the United States, and in
Botswana and South Africa, the severe limitations and constraints
inherent in liberal democracy are highlighted. The need for a clear
evaluation of what constituted democracy emerges as a powerful
message of Kenneth Good's argument.
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