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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jason BrennanPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780691162607ISBN 10: 0691162603 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 06 September 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Replaced By: 9780691178493 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews"One of Zocalo's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 ""Brennan has a bright, pugilistic style, and he takes a sportsman's pleasure in upsetting pieties and demolishing weak logic.""--Caleb Crain, New Yorker ""A brash, well-argued diatribe against the democratic system. There is much to mull over in this brazen stab at the American electoral process... Sure to cause howls of disagreement, but in the current toxic partisan climate, Brennan's polemic is as worth weighing as any other.""--Kirkus ""Important.""--Ilya Somin, Washington Post Volokh Conspiracy ""The book makes compelling reading for what is typically a dry area of discourse. This is theory that skips, rather than plods.""--Molly Sauter, Los Angeles Times ""Among the best works in political philosophy in recent memory.""--Zachary Woodman, Students for Liberty ""Challenging and insightful.""--Alexander William Salter, Public Choice ""Lucidly written in provocative, sometimes brash tones, it is especially useful for the undergraduate classroom.""--Choice ""Against Democracy seems scarily prescient today. Writing well before the twin shocks of the Brexit and the U.S. elections, the Georgetown political scientist makes a powerful case that popular democracy can be dangerous--and, provocatively, that irrational and incompetent voters should be excluded from democratic decision-making. The case for elitism in governance never read so well.""--Zocalo Public Square ""Meticulous [and] crisply written.""--Tom Clark, Prospect ""Mercilessly well-argued.""--Niko Kolodny, Boston Review" A brash, well-argued diatribe against the democratic system. There is much to mull over in this brazen stab at the American electoral process... Sure to cause howls of disagreement, but in the current toxic partisan climate, Brennan's polemic is as worth weighing as any other. --Kirkus A brash, well-argued diatribe against the democratic system. There is much to mull over in this brazen stab at the American electoral process... Sure to cause howls of disagreement, but in the current toxic partisan climate, Brennan's polemic is as worth weighing as any other. --Kirkus Important. --Ilya Somin, Washington Post Volokh Conspiracy Author InformationJason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Ethics of Voting (Princeton), Why Not Capitalism?, and Libertarianism. He is the coauthor of Markets without Limits, Compulsory Voting, and A Brief History of Liberty. He writes regularly for Bleeding Heart Libertarians, a blog. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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