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Cover image for book The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics

The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics

By:Louis Schubert; Thomas R. Dye; Harmon Zeigler
Publisher:Cengage Learning US
Print ISBN:9781305688988
eText ISBN:9781305537491
Edition:17
Copyright:2016
Format:Page Fidelity

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The question at the center of the seventeenth edition of THE IRONY OF DEMOCRACY is “How democratic is American society?” While most American government textbooks address politics from a pluralist perspective, this text approaches the subject using an elitist perspective, thus exposing the irony between it and democratic theory and modern pluralist theory. As a result, this text helps students understand why the U.S. government works as it does.
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