Langbeschreibung
How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword1. The Fight for the Vote: A Tortuous and Still-Unfinished History2. A New Tutor for the ‘Childlike’ Multitude3. An Alternative to Property Qualifications: The Origins of Bonapartism, from America to France4. The Trumpets of the Ruling Classes and the Bells of the Subaltern5. The Bonapartist Regime’s Baptism of Fire6. Universal Suffrage, Proportional Representation and the Reaction Against It7. The Twentieth Century: Between Emancipation and Disemancipation8. The Triumph of Soft BonapartismIndex