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Restoring Democracy to America

How to Free Markets and Politics from the Corporate Culture of Business and Government
  • ISBN-13: 9780271037257
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By John F. M. McDermott
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Local release date: 12/01/2011
  • Format: Paperback 496 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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A narrative history of the gains in economic and political equality in the United States starting in the 1870s. Argues that many of these gains have been reversed since the 1960s, and proposes solutions for reversing this downward spiral.


Contents

Preface: A Life of Thought in a Life of Politics

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: The Historic Advance, ca. 1870–1970

1. The Historic Advance: Setting a Context

2. Interpreting the “Sixties”

3. The Modern Reaction

Part 2: Recapping and Beyond

4. Social Stratification and Social Dynamics

5. Institutional Elites and Social Action

6. The Inner Government Within Liberal Democracy

Part 3: Proposals for a Renewed Historic Advance

7. On Strategy and Organization

8. The Reform of the Police Power

9. Civilizing the Corporation

10. A “Civilized” Employment System

11. International Government and International Chaos

12. Political Reform

Notes

References

Index


“John F. M. McDermott’s Restoring Democracy to America is a sweeping, powerful political sociology of the conservative reaction that dominated the politics and culture of advanced capitalist democracies after the post–World War II ‘welfare state consensus’ weakened in the 1970s. His book brings social theory to bear upon a nuanced historical analysis of the rise (and now crisis) of deregulated, finance-driven, postindustrial capitalism. He adeptly shows how the Right succeeded (with difficulty) in bringing together the managerial elite’s turn against the welfare state and the ‘antimodernist’ cultural impulses of deindustrialized communities. But McDermott does not simply chart the rise and consolidation of conservative rule; his analysis also illuminates the social dynamics that may give rise to democratic forces that can revive progressive politics.”

—Joseph M. Schwartz, Temple University

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