Democracy unmoored : populism and the corruption of popular sovereignty

By:

Issacharoff, Samuel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2023Edition: 1stDescription: 286 pISBN:

9780197674758

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.5662 ISS

Summary: "About a decade ago, I found myself alone for dinner one evening in Buenos Aires, the city of my birth. I had a lecture to give the next day and I had reserved the time alone to prepare over dinner in a typical neighborhood restaurant. Such a "boliche," in the local porteño slang, was a comfortable setting to have a meal. I sat down with typical Argentine fare and the inescapable good wine and turned to my lecture materials. I soon found myself distracted by an excellent soccer match shown on a large screen tv that had been brought in for the occasion. A couple of glasses of tinto, the reds of Mendoza province, and a close football game, and I accepted that lecture preparation was concluded"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Gifted Law Books	BMU Library	Non-Fiction	24-F	320.5662 ISS (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available	SOL		GL611

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	294.54 IYE Fire on the ganges : life among the dead in Banaras	307.76 MEH Kinetic city and other essays	320.5 QUR India's experiment with democracy : the life of a nation through its elections	320.5662 ISS Democracy unmoored : populism and the corruption of popular sovereignty

"About a decade ago, I found myself alone for dinner one evening in Buenos Aires, the city of my birth. I had a lecture to give the next day and I had reserved the time alone to prepare over dinner in a typical neighborhood restaurant. Such a "boliche," in the local porteño slang, was a comfortable setting to have a meal. I sat down with typical Argentine fare and the inescapable good wine and turned to my lecture materials. I soon found myself distracted by an excellent soccer match shown on a large screen tv that had been brought in for the occasion. A couple of glasses of tinto, the reds of Mendoza province, and a close football game, and I accepted that lecture preparation was concluded"--

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