Author: Walter Edward WeylPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The New Democracy
Author: Walter Edward WeylPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The New Democracy
Author: Walter Edward WeylPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781293941980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The New Democracy; An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in the United States - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Walter E 1873-1919 WeylPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781297003196
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The New Democracy
Author: Walter Edward WeylPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780765808356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
When The New Democracy first appeared in 1912, it was widely regarded as one of the most influential works of the Progressive Era. Yet, despite continuing interest in the political thought of the Progressive Era, both Weyl and The New Democracy slipped into undeserved obscurity shortly after the author's death from cancer in 1919. Despite this, Weyl's book remains one of the most important links in the development of a liberal-progressive theory of democracy. Weyl describes the efforts of a plutocracy seeking to control, often by corrupt means, the federal government. He attacks the Founding Fathers' motives, and reads the Constitution as an anti-democratic document produced by aristocrats attempting to protect their own economic interests in troubled times. In contrast to many of his predecessors, Weyl rejects Natural Law and sees the distribution of wealth as the fundamental issue in political life. For Weyl, rights are not defined by Nature, but by human institutions that distribute wealth. He supported a stronger federal government, one that provides more rights and economic equality for the common citizen. In his opening essay for this new edition of The New Democracy, Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. painstakingly explores Weyl's life, influence, political philosophy, the origins of the book, and the author's subsequent descent into obscurity. This classic work will be of interest to students of political science, government, and American political theory. "At last the progressive movement in American politics has a book worthy of its deep and wide significance, a brilliant book, one with literary fascination as well as intellectual grasp. The New Democracy emphatically belongs to the books one ought to read.' It is written with knowledge, imagination, judgment, sane idealism, a wealth of apt metaphors and a rare command of pure and flexible English."--Edwin L. Shuman, lecturer, Northwestern University and author of Practical Journalism and How to Judge a Book Walter E. Weyl (1873-1919) was a co-founding editor of the New Republic and the author of several books on political science, including The End of the War, American World Policies, and Tired Radicals. Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. is professor emeritus of political science at Radford University and series editor of Transaction's Library of Liberal Thought.
The New Democracy; An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in the United States
Author: Walter E. WeylPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780353029323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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The New Democracy
Author: Walter Edward WeylPublisher:
ISBN: 9781315133409
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"When The New Democracy first appeared in 1912, it was widely regarded as one of the most influential works of the Progressive Era. Yet, despite continuing interest in the political thought of the Progressive Era, both Weyl and The New Democracy slipped into undeserved obscurity shortly after the author's death from cancer in 1919. Despite this, Weyl's book remains one of the most important links in the development of a liberal-progressive theory of democracy. Weyl describes the efforts of a plutocracy seeking to control, often by corrupt means, the federal government. He attacks the Founding Fathers' motives, and reads the Constitution as an anti-democratic document produced by aristocrats attempting to protect their own economic interests in troubled times. In contrast to many of his predecessors, Weyl rejects Natural Law and sees the distribution of wealth as the fundamental issue in political life. For Weyl, rights are not defined by Nature, but by human institutions that distribute wealth. He supported a stronger federal government, one that provides more rights and economic equality for the common citizen. In his opening essay for this new edition of The New Democracy, Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. painstakingly explores Weyl's life, influence, political philosophy, the origins of the book, and the author's subsequent descent into obscurity. This classic work will be of interest to students of political science, government, and American political theory."--Provided by publisher.
The New Democracy
Author: Walter Edward WeylPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295833252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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The New Democracy
Author: Walter E. WeylPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330250235
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Excerpt from The New Democracy: An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in the United States America to-day is in a somber, soul-questioning mood. We are in a period of clamor, of bewilderment, of an almost tremulous unrest. We are hastily revising all our social conceptions. We are hastily testing all our political ideals. We are profoundly disenchanted with the fruits of a century of independence. Our visitors from Europe in the early days of independence were obsessed by the unique significance of our democracy. To liberty or to its excesses they ascribed all American qualities, customs, and accidents. Our native apologists laid equal emphasis upon democracy. In half-ludicrous, half-tragic orations, they acclaimed the rule of the people as the essence and import of the new Republic. America was to be the eternal land of liberty, the refuge of the world's oppressed, the mentor of Europe. The chosen people of the West were to teach the true creed of democracy, in obedience to a divine command, as explicit as that laid upon the ancient folk of Israel. Four generations have passed since Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. We have survived the early days of poverty and interstate bickering. We have grown in wealth, power, and prestige. We have issued triumphantly from a great civil war, which put an end forever to chattel slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
New Democracy
Author: Weyl Walter E.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780259611813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unequal Democracy
Author: Larry M. BartelsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691181071
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expanded The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the Obama era. One presents the Great Recession as a "stress test" of the American political system by analyzing the 2008 election and the impact of Barack Obama's "New New Deal" on the economic fortunes of the rich, middle class, and poor. The other assesses the politics of inequality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 2012 election, and the partisan gridlock of Obama’s second term. Larry Bartels offers a sobering account of the barriers to change posed by partisan ideologies and the political power of the wealthy. He also provides new analyses of tax policy, partisan differences in economic performance, the struggle to raise the minimum wage, and inequalities in congressional representation. President Obama identified inequality as "the defining challenge of our time." Unequal Democracy is the definitive account of how and why our political system has failed to rise to that challenge. Now more than ever, this is a book every American needs to read.