Beyond Polarized American Democracy: Mass Society, Coups, and Potential Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781032474137 / Angielski

Michael Haas

Opis

-- Timely and relevant socio-political issue for US audiences -- Provocative and compelling analysis of an array of social, cultural, and political dynamics across US society and political institutions -- Engagingly written for both academic and non-specialist readers

Recenzje

This book offers a critical discussion about the increasing risks to American democracy. The author presents a meaningful framework of four ideologies (that co-exist uneasily together) as well as ten types of nonviolent civil wars that are currently underway in the US.　 This two-level strategy allows readers to understand how proponents of the four groups can draw on any combination of the types of nonviolent civil wars to disrupt democracy. I heartily recommend this book as it starts an important conversation for all who support democracy.

-- Anna Bounds, Associate Professor of Sociology, Queens College

The idea of a second civil war in American politics has received scant attention and should be taken more seriously in an era of rising vigilantism, record polarization, and rising extremism. I am glad this author is making this a focus and strongly recommend this book to readers committed to maintaining democracy in the US.

-- Anthony DiMaggio, Associate Professor of Policial Science, Lehigh University and author of Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here (Routledge, 2022)

Spis treści

Part I Introduction 1. On the Cusp of Civil War Part II Types of Civil War 2. Conspiratorial Civil War 3. Culture War 4. Verbal Civil War 5. Class-Based Civil War 6. Racial Civil War 7. Civil Society Civil War 8. Information Civil War 9. Congressional Civil War 10. Constitutional Civil War 11. Interstate Civil War Part III End Game 12. Countermeasures to Stop Nonviolent Civil War 13. Metastasizing from Nonviolent to Violent Civil War 14. Looking Forward into an Abyss?

O autorze

Michael Haas is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale University. After earning his doctorate, he taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i for 35 years, with additional appointments at Northwestern University, Purdue University, the University of California Riverside, the University of London, and five California State University campuses. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Council of the University of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. He also serves as President of the Political Film Society in Los Angeles. Due to his work on behalf of human rights, both through publications and some political activity in regard to American racism and foreign policy misadventures, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.