Attention deficit democracy : the paradox of civic engagement / Ben Berger.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400840311
- 1400840317
- 1283195135
- 9781283195133
- 9786613195135
- 6613195138
- Political participation -- United States
- Democracy
- Participation politique -- États-Unis
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy
- Democracy
- Political participation
- United States
- 323/.0420973 23
- JK1764 .B465 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The rules of engagement -- Political engagement as intrinsic good: Arendt and company -- Political engagement as instrumental good: Tocqueville, attention deficit, and energy -- Is political engagement better than sex? -- Conclusion: Tocqueville vs. the full monty.
Print version record.
Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widespread agreement. But how realistic--or helpful--is it to expect citizens to devote more attention and energy to politics? In Attention Deficit Democracy, Ben Berger provides a surprising new perspective on the problem of civic engagement, challenging idealists who aspire to revolutionize democracies and their citizens, but also taking issue with cynics who think that citizens cannot, and need not, do better.
English.
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