(S)electing the president : the perils of democracy

• 資料種別: 図書
• ISBN: 9781138212251 (hardback); 1138212253 (hardback); 9781138212268 (pbk.); 1138212261 (pbk.); 9781315450858 (ebook)
• タイトル: (S)electing the president : the perils of democracy
• 著者・編者: Michael L. Mezey.
• 著者標目: Mezey, Michael L.
• 出版事項: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (出版)
• 出版年月日等: 2018.; 著作権日付 : ©2018
• 出版年（W3CDTF）: 2018
• 数量: vii, 183 pages
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 出版地（国名コード）: US
• 本文の言語コード: eng
• 表現種別: text
• 機器種別: unmediated
• キャリア種別: volume
• 件名標目: Presidents--United States--Election.; Political participation--United States.; Political culture--United States.; Communication in politics--Technological innovations--United States.; Democracy--United States.
• LCC: JK528
• DDC: 324.973
• NDLC: AU-251; A251
• 対象利用者: 一般
• 資料の内容に関する注記: Selecting political leaders by popular election is an unquestioned hallmark of representative democracies-the institutional manifestation of Lincoln's promise of a government of the people and by the people. But in 2016, Lincoln's promise seems to have given way to Hamilton's nightmare-with his worries that popular elections would produce demagogues who paid an "obsequious court to the people," appealing to their passions and prejudices rather than to their reason. This book examines the commitment to the widest level of participation among the largest number of citizens in the selection of the president. It looks at two salient characteristics of our current presidential election environment that bring the wisdom of this commitment into question: the declining influence of political parties and the communication revolution in the form of the internet, social media, and cable television. Ultimately, Mezey asks whether our now fully democratized presidential selection process has in fact diminished the quality of our presidential candidates and the campaigns they run, whether the turn to demagoguery that the founders feared has materialized, what the consequences of our presidential selection process have been for American government, and whether or not it would be valuable to rethink our wholehearted commitment to popular election of the president. His answers do not topple our commitment to popular elections but rather point the way toward improving the quality of both participation and democracy.
• 書誌注記: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-178) and index.
• 所蔵機関: 国立国会図書館
• 請求記号: AU-251-B324
• 連携機関・データベース: 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• 書誌ID（NDLBibID）: 028338590; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/028338590
• LC control number: 2017008031; https://lccn.loc.gov/2017008031
• OCLC番号: 975372404; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/975372404
• 目録規則: RDA
• 整理区分コード: 211

• 内容細目: Candidate quality and the presidential election of 2016Democracy, representation, and electionsThe founders and presidential selection...