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Nos leaders d’opinion ont une théorie pour expliquer les comportements de certains de nos concitoyens, qui exaltent la sagesse des foules ― et, cela va de soi, sont racistes, sexistes et homophobes. Ces égarés, assurent-ils, agissent sous l’emprise d’une doctrine rétrograde, le « populisme » ; et leurs adeptes sont des bourrins incultes qui ont une dent contre leurs congénères instruits. Le populisme est en guerre contre la pensée moderne et le progrès. Il est complice de la diffusion du mal, pour ne pas dire qu’il est le mal lui-même.La façon dont nos progressistes autoproclamés mésusent et abusent désormais du mot « populisme » prouve qu’ils se sont résolument tournés contre leur héritage démocratique. La démocratie pose un problème, expliquent-ils, parce qu’elle permet au peuple de faire fi de l’autorité des experts.Le paysage politique est cul par-dessus tête, mais le combat reste le même : le vrai sujet, ce sont les privilèges des élites, et le populisme est peut-être le remède permettant de nous en délivrer.

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This is a sweeping new interpretation of the national experience, reconceiving key political events from the Revolution to the New Deal. Rana begins by emphasizing that the national founding was first and foremost an experiment in settler colonization. For American settlers, internal self-government involved a unique vision of freedom, which combined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this independence was based on ideas of extensive land ownership which helped to sustain both territorial conquest and the subordination of slaves and native peoples. At the close of the nineteenth century, emerging social movements struggled to liberate the potential of self-rule from these oppressive and exclusionary features. These efforts ultimately collapsed, in large part because white settlers failed to conceive of liberty as a truly universal aspiration. The consequence was the rise of new modes of political authority that presented national and economic security as society’s guiding commitments. Rana contends that the challenge for today’s reformers is to recover a robust notion of independence and participation from the settler experience while finally making it universal.

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Political participation --- Political culture --- Democracy --- City and town life --- Participation politique --- Culture politique --- Démocratie --- Vie urbaine --- History --- Histoire --- United States --- New York (N.Y.) --- New Orleans (La.) --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- Etats-Unis --- La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Démocratie --- La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) --- 19th century --- To 1898 --- New Orleans, La. --- Political participation - United States - History - 19th century. --- Democracy - United States - History - 19th century. --- City and town life - United States - History - 19th century.

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Promoting Polyarchy is an exciting, detailed, and controversial work on the apparent change in US foreign policy from supporting dictatorships to an 'open' promotion of 'democratic' regimes. William I. Robinson argues that behind the facade of 'democracy promotion', the policy is designed more to retain the elite-based and undemocratic status quo of Third World countries than to encourage mass aspirations for democratization. He supports this challenging argument with a wealth of information garnered from field work and hitherto unpublished government documents, and assembled in case studies of the Philippines, Chile, Nicaragua, Haiti, South Africa, and the former Soviet Bloc. With its combination of theoretical and historical analysis, empirical argument, and bold claims, Promoting Polyarchy is an essential book for anyone concerned with democracy, globalization and international affairs.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Political systems --- United States --- 800 Collectie Vlaams Vredesinstituut --- 810 Theorie en Methode --- 824 Globalisering --- 826 Imperialisme, Kolonialisme --- 831 Internationale Politieke Economie --- 841.1 Democratisering --- 855.4 Militaire interventies --- 856.7 Sancties --- 882.1 Caraïben --- 882.2 Zuid-Amerika --- 882.3 Midden-Amerika --- 882.4 Noord-Amerika --- 883.3 Zuidoost-Azië --- Democracy --- World politics --- History --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Foreign relations --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Democracy - History - 20th century --- Democracy - United States - History - 20th century --- World politics - 1985-1995 --- United States - Foreign relations - 1981-1989 --- United States - Foreign relations - 1989 --- -Democracy --- United States of America