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050 0 4 _aJC423
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_b.R6713 2018
100 _aRosanvallon, Pierre,
_d1948-
_eauthor
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240 1 0 _aBon gouvernement.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aGood government :
_bdemocracy beyond elections /
_cPierre Rosanvallon ; translated by Malcolm DeBevoise.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _avi, 338 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"Originally published in French as Le Bon gouvernement, by Pierre Rosanvallon. Copyright © Les Éditions du Seuil, 2015."
504 _aBIBINDX
505 0 _aIntroduction: From one democracy to another -- I. Executive power: Consecration of the law and demotion of the executive -- The cult of impersonality and its metamorphoses -- The age of rehabilitation -- Two temptations -- II. The presidentialization of democracies: The pioneering experiments: 1848 and Weimar -- From Gaullist exception to standard model -- Unworkable and unavoidable -- Limiting illiberalism -- III. A democracy of appropriation: The governed and their governors -- Legibility -- Responsibility -- Responsiveness -- IV. A democracy of trust: The good ruler in historical perspective -- Plain speaking -- Integrity -- Conclusion: The second democratic revolution.
520 _aFew would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures that only the affluent have voice in legislation. Europeans, meanwhile, increasingly see the European Union as an anti-democratic body whose "diktats" have no basis in popular rule. The response, however, has not been an effective pursuit of better representation. In Good Government, Pierre Rosanvallon examines the long history of the alternative to which the public has gravitated: the empowered executive. Rosanvallon argues that, faced with everyday ineptitude in governance, people become attracted to strong leaders and bold executive action. If these fail, they too often want even stronger personal leadership. Whereas nineteenth-century liberals and reformers longed for parliamentary sovereignty, nowadays few contest the "imperial presidency." Rosanvallon traces this history from the Weimar Republic to Charles De Gaulle's "exceptional" presidency to the Bush-Cheney concentration of executive power. Europeans rebelling against the technocratic EU and Americans fed up with the "administrative state" have turned to charismatic figures, from Donald Trump to Viktor Orbán, who tout personal strength as their greatest asset. This is not just a right-wing phenomenon, though, as liberal contentment with Obama's drone war demonstrates. Rosanvallon makes clear that contemporary "presidentialism" may reflect the particular concerns of the moment, but its many precursors demonstrate that democracy has always struggled with tension between popular government and concentrated authority.--
_cProvided by publisher
650 0 _aDemocracy
_9115094
650 0 _aPolitical science
_98052
700 1 _aDeBevoise, M. B.
_etranslator
_9100900
765 0 8 _iTranslation of:
_aRosanvallon, Pierre, 1948-
_tBon gouvernement.
_dParis : Éditions du Seuil, [2015]
_z9782021224221
_w(DLC) 2015494337
_w(OCoLC)919594215
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