Let the People Rule
How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
$51.99
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2020
Summary
Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let the People Rule, this belief is based in fact. Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. The solution Matsusaka advances is familiar but surprisingly underused: direct democra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691199726 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691199728 |
| Author: | John G. Matsusaka |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2020 |
| Weight: | 648g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
John G. Matsusaka
John G. Matsusaka is the Charles F. Sexton Chair in American Enterprise at the Marshall School of Business and the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as executive director of the Initiative and Referendum Institute. He is the author of For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy and lives in Los Angeles.
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