The Eclipse of the Demos

Winner: Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award As populism presaging authoritarianism surges worldwide and political rights and civil liberties erode, pundits, politicians, and political scientists agree: democracy is in crisis. But where many blame the rise of neoliberalism, Kyong-Min Son suggests that a longer historical perspective is in order. His book, The Eclipse of the Demos , traces the crisis of democracy back to a fateful transformation of democratic theory during the Cold Wa