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Democracy Disfigured

Opinion, Truth, and the People

Nadia Urbinati

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ISBN 9780674725133

Publication Date: 02/25/2014

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction
1. Democracy’s Diarchy
2. Unpolitical Democracy
3. The Populist Power
4. The Plebiscite of the Audience and the Politics of Passivity
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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