The eyes of the people [electronic resource] : democracy in an age of spectatorship / Jeffrey Edward Green.
Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (viii, 284 p.).ISBN: 9780199871711 (ebook) :; 019987171X (ebook) :.Subject(s): Representative government and representation | Collective behavior -- Political aspects | Democracy | Plebiscite | Political participationAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780195372649DDC classification: 321.8 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this book, Green argues that it is both possible and desirable to understand democracy in terms of what the People gets to see instead of the traditional focus on what it gets to say.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this book, Green argues that it is both possible and desirable to understand democracy in terms of what the People gets to see instead of the traditional focus on what it gets to say.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.