The Dark Side of Politics

ISBN-13: 9781032593869 / Twarda / 2023 / 232 str.

Benjamin Ginsberg

Opis

This series of scholarly essays explores the unpleasant realities of modern politics—and American politics in particular—by examining how self-interest, war, violence, deception, and institutional failure continue to characterize the political landscape.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Violence.  Chapter 2. War.  Chapter 3. Rewriting History.  Chapter 4. Bureaucracy.  Chapter 5. Duplicity.  Chapter 6. Surveillance and Secrecy.  Chapter 7. Legitimacy.  Epilogue: Death.

O autorze

Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author, co- author or editor of 30 books including The Fall of the Faculty; Presidential Government; Downsizing Democracy; The Captive Public; Politics by Other Means; and America’s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies (Routledge, 2021). Ginsberg received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973 and was Professor of Government at Cornell until 1992 when he joined the Hopkins faculty.