LEADER 02826nam 2200493 450 001 9910826007103321 005 20230112184826.0 010 $a0-300-24482-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300244823 035 $a(CKB)4100000008095468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5761217 035 $a(DE-B1597)530517 035 $a(OCoLC)1099434737 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300244823 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7026696 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7026696 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008095468 100 $a20230112d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEntrenchment $ewealth, power, and the constitution of democratic societies /$fPaul Starr 210 1$aNew Haven ;$aLondon :$cYale University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (279 pages) 311 $a0-300-23847-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$t1. UNDERSTANDING ENTRENCHMENT --$t2. ARISTOCRACY AND INHERITED WEALTH --$t3. RACIAL SLAVERY AS AN ENTRENCHED CONTRADICTION --$t4. THE CONSERVATIVE DESIGN OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY --$t5. ENTRENCHING PROGRESSIVE CHANGE --$t6. DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICS OF ENTRENCHMENT --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAn investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealth Much of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment-efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo. That is why the stakes of contemporary politics are so high. In this wide?'ranging book, Starr examines how changes at the foundations of society become hard to reverse-yet sometimes are overturned. Overcoming aristocratic power was the formative problem for eighteenth?'century revolutions. Overcoming slavery was the central problem for early American democracy. Controlling the power of concentrated wealth has been an ongoing struggle in the world's capitalist democracies. The battles continue today in the troubled democracies of our time, with the rise of both oligarchy and populist nationalism and the danger that illiberal forces will entrench themselves in power. Entrenchment raises fundamental questions about the origins of our institutions and urgent questions about the future. 606 $aOligarchy 606 $aLiberalism 615 0$aOligarchy. 615 0$aLiberalism. 676 $a321.5 700 $aStarr$b Paul$f1949-$0988664 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826007103321 996 $aEntrenchment$94048168 997 $aUNINA