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Democratic Statecraft: Political Realism and Popular Power

by J. S. Maloy
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780521192200
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: USD 100.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Theory

The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the strategies and maneuvers of privileged agents, whereas the theory of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is statecraft destined to remain the preserve of powerful elites, leaving democracy to ineffectual idealists? J. S. Maloy demonstrates that the Western tradition of statecraft, usually considered the tool of tyrants and oligarchs, has in fact been integral to the development of democratic thought. Five case studies of political debate, ranging from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth-century United States, illustrate how democratic ideas can be relevant to the real world of politics instead of reinforcing the idealistic delusions of conventional wisdom and academic theory alike. The tradition highlighted by these cases still offers resources for reconstructing our idea of popular government in a realistic spirit - skeptical, pragmatic, and relentlessly focused on power.

Maloy, J. S.: - J. S. Maloy is a native of Austin, Texas, and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and of academic papers in the Journal of Politics, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of the History of Ideas and other publications.

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