Machiavellian Democracy McCormick John P. University of Chicago
Machiavellian Democracy McCormick John P. University of Chicago Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. McCormick confronts this…
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Machiavellian Democracy McCormick John P. University of Chicago
Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. McCormick confronts this dire situation through a dramatic reinterpretation of Niccolo Machiavelli's political thought. Mounting evidence suggests that economic power, not popular will, determines public policy, and that elections consistently fail to keep public officials accountable to the people. John P.
Machiavellian Democracy fundamentally reassesses one of the central figures in the Western political canon and decisively intervenes into current Highlighting previously neglected democratic strains in Machiavelli's major writings, McCormick excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates, and he imagines how such institutions might be revived today.