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03215aam a2200385 i 4500 001 A0FFB026580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170710t20182018nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017008031 020 $a 1138212261 020 $a 9781138212268 020 $a 1138212253 020 $a 9781138212251 035 $a (OCoLC)975372404 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d BTCTA $d YDX $d ERASA $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK528 $b .M44 2018 082 00 $a 324.973 $2 23 100 1 $a Mezey, Michael L., $e author. 245 10 $a (S)electing the president : $b the perils of democracy / $c Michael L. Mezey. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2018. 300 $a vii, 183 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-178) and index. 505 0 $a Candidate quality and the presidential election of 2016 -- Democracy, representation, and elections -- The founders and presidential selection -- Democratization and political parties -- The democratized nomination process -- The democratized media -- Charisma, demagoguery, populism, and celebrity -- Democratization and presidentialism -- The perils of democracy. 520 8 $a Selecting political leaders by popular election is an unquestioned hallmark of representative democracies-the institutional manifestation of Lincoln's promise of a government of the people and by the people. But in 2016, Lincoln's promise seems to have given way to Hamilton's nightmare-with his worries that popular elections would produce demagogues who paid an "obsequious court to the people," appealing to their passions and prejudices rather than to their reason. This book examines the commitment to the widest level of participation among the largest number of citizens in the selection of the president. It looks at two salient characteristics of our current presidential election environment that bring the wisdom of this commitment into question: the declining influence of political parties and the communication revolution in the form of the internet, social media, and cable television. Ultimately, Mezey asks whether our now fully democratized presidential selection process has in fact diminished the quality of our presidential candidates and the campaigns they run, whether the turn to demagoguery that the founders feared has materialized, what the consequences of our presidential selection process have been for American government, and whether or not it would be valuable to rethink our wholehearted commitment to popular election of the president. His answers do not topple our commitment to popular elections but rather point the way toward improving the quality of both participation and democracy. 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $x Election. 650 0 $a Political participation $z United States. 650 0 $a Political culture $z United States. 650 0 $a Communication in politics $x Technological innovations $z United States. 650 0 $a Democracy $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217024945.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A0FFB026580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search