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- catalog abstract ""In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy, in which political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process. Mandatory taxes have replaced bonds as a means to fund military operations, career civil servants have replaced volunteers in the allocation of public services, and an elite, professional soldier has replaced the citizen-soldier. With citizens pushed to the periphery of political life, narrow special interest groups from across the political spectrum - largely composed of faceless members drawn from extended mailing lists - have come to dominate state and federal decision-making. In the closing decade of the last century, this trend only intensified as the federal government, taking a cue from business management practices, rethought its relationship to its citizens as one of a provider of goods and services to individual "customers.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12595162.
- catalog contributor b12595163.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy, in which political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process. Mandatory taxes have replaced bonds as a means to fund military operations, career civil servants have replaced volunteers in the allocation of public services, and an elite, professional soldier has replaced the citizen-soldier.".
- catalog description "From popular to personal democracy -- The rise and fall of the citizen -- Elections without voters -- Political parties: the old patronage and the new -- Disunited we stand -- From masses to mailing lists -- The jurisprudence of personal democracy -- Movements without members -- Privatizing the public -- Conclusion: does anyone need citizens?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-284) and index.".
- catalog description "With citizens pushed to the periphery of political life, narrow special interest groups from across the political spectrum - largely composed of faceless members drawn from extended mailing lists - have come to dominate state and federal decision-making. In the closing decade of the last century, this trend only intensified as the federal government, taking a cue from business management practices, rethought its relationship to its citizens as one of a provider of goods and services to individual "customers.""--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 294 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Downsizing democracy.".
- catalog identifier "0801871506 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Downsizing democracy.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Downsizing democracy.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "323/.042/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Democracy United States Citizen participation.".
- catalog subject "JK1764 .C74 2002".
- catalog subject "Political participation United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "From popular to personal democracy -- The rise and fall of the citizen -- Elections without voters -- Political parties: the old patronage and the new -- Disunited we stand -- From masses to mailing lists -- The jurisprudence of personal democracy -- Movements without members -- Privatizing the public -- Conclusion: does anyone need citizens?".
- catalog title "Downsizing democracy : how America sidelined its citizens and privatized its public / Matthew A. Crenson, Benjamin Ginsberg.".
- catalog type "text".