TY - BOOK AU - Issacharoff,Samuel TI - Democracy unmoored: populism and the corruption of popular sovereignty SN - 9780197674758 U1 - 320.5662 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Democracy KW - Populism N2 - "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 porteƱo 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"-- ER -