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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Maloy, Jason Stuart (1974-....)
Titre(s) : Democratic statecraft [Texte électronique] : political realism and popular power / J.S. Maloy, Oklahoma State University
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 online resource
Note(s) : "Shows that the Western tradition of statecraft, long considered the method of tyrants
and oligarchs, can steer our thinking about democracy in bold new directions"--
Sujet(s) : Science politique -- Études comparatives
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781139624442
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43702157t
Notice n° :
FRBNF43702157
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction Realism and Democracy; A Massacre
in Paris; Realism and Idealism; The Theory of Statecraft; Synopsis of the Book; 2
Reason of State and Realism's Two Dimensions; Missions in a New World; Pragmatism
and Skepticism; The Socratic Option: Moralistic Utopianism; The Ciceronian Option:
Moralistic Pragmatism; The Tacitist Option: Skeptical Utopianism; The Sophistic Option:
Skeptical Pragmatism; The Enigma of Montaigne; Reason of State: Between Cicero and
Tacitus; Systemic Utility and Democratic Regimes; Models of Democracy.
3 From the Sophists to Aristotle Institutions LieJason against Justice; The Sophists'
Realism; Thrasymachus the Realist; Socrates the Idealist; Sophists Galore; Aristotle
against Expertise; The Ordeal of Alcibiades; Political Justice and Partial Law; Popular
Judgment Defended; Pragmatic Democracy; Ostracism; Anti-Formal Realism; 4 From Aristotle
to Machiavelli Democracy Bites; Resurrection in Sicily; Sex, Politics, and Realism;
Two Tyrants; Secrets and Mirrors; Renaissance Pragmatism and Aristotle; Machiavelli's
Pragmatism; Plutarch's Machiavellians; The Rhetorical Aristotle.
Rhetoric and Ethical SkepticismThe Skeptical Machiavelli; Vox Populi; Popular Power
Institutionalized; Democratic Skepticism?; 5 From Machiavelli to the Puritans Fire
Fights Fire; A Riot in London; Puritan Pragmatism; Cromwell's Model; The Levellers'
Statecraft; Winthrop's Ordeal; New England's Books; Providential Populism; Institutionalized
Accountability; Unicameralism and Machiavelli; Anti-Formal Reform; 6 From the Puritans
to the Populists Money Never Sleeps; The Death of Parrington; A Puritan Crusade; Formal
Institutions Decoded; Democracy and Power; Postwar Skepticism and Satire.
A Machiavellian in New YorkVoting and Elections; The Party Duopoly; Moralism and Pragmatism
in 1896; Statecraft, Parties, and Elections; 7 Conclusion Power and Paradoxes; Stories,
Guns, and Money; Institutions Lie; Democracy Bites; Fire Fights Fire; Money Never
Sleeps; Means and Ends; Real Democracy?; References; Index.
