TY - BOOK AU - Galston,William A. AU - Hunter,James Davison AU - Owen,John M. TI - Anti-pluralism: the populist threat to liberal democracy SN - 9780300251807 AV - JK1726 .G35 2018eb U1 - 320.973 23 PY - 0000/// CY - PB - KW - Democracy KW - United States KW - Politics, Practical KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - Government KW - General KW - National KW - Reference KW - HISTORY KW - Modern KW - 20th Century KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - 2017-2021 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Challenges to liberal democracy --; Democratic erosion and political convergence --; Liberal democracy in theory --; The populist challenge --; The European project and its enemies (with Clara J. Hendrickson) --; Is democracy at risk in the United States? --; Liberal democracy in America : what is to be done? --; Democratic leadership --; The incompleteness of liberal de mocracy N2 - The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today's populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges indict the triumphalism that accompanied liberal democratic consolidation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To respond to today's crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing fraught social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention. Although reforms may stem the populist tide, liberal democratic life will always leave some citizens unsatisfied. This is a permanent source of vulnerability, but liberal democracy will endure so long as citizens believe it is worth fighting for UR - http://libproxy.aucegypt.edu:2048/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt21668rd ER -