The irony of democracy

By Thomas R. Dye, Harmon Zeigler

Subjects: Political science, Politics and government, Politics/International Relations, Élite (sciences sociales), Cultural pluralism, Elite (Social sciences), Elite (social sciences), General, Political science / general, Politique et gouvernement, Politics / Current Events, Textbooks, United states, politics and government, Pluralism (Social sciences), Political Science, Élite (Sciences sociales), Pluralisme (philosophie), Pluralism (social sciences), Political Science / General, Politics/international relations, Politics / current events, Pluralisme (Philosophie)

Description: In high school, we studied a book called "The Irony of Democracy" (ours). It explained in depth an via both history, demographics and statistics how (this is the irony:) That the system favors elites to populate government ranks--while they mostly buy into values and institutions of it all being by and for the people. That buy-in has sometimes ebbed, and has now almost completely evaporated, at least among the GOP and the monster who holds it captive.