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The Phantom Public
From the best selling author of A Preface to Politics, Public Opinion, and Liberty and the News! The Phantom Public was Lippman’s most towering achievement influencing political thought for decades to come. In it Lippman posits that the public exists merely as an illusion, myth, and inevitably a phantom; that the common man cannot be expected to know enough about events entirely beyond their control to cast an informed and meaningful vote. For Lippmann the public was a theoretical fiction and government was primarily an administrative problem to be solved as efficiently as possible, so that people could get on with their own individualistic pursuits —Carl Bybee Lippmann’s most powerfully argued and revealing books. In it he came fully to terms with the inadequacy of traditional democratic theory. —Ronald Steel
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The Phantom Public
From the best selling author of A Preface to Politics, Public Opinion, and Liberty and the News! The Phantom Public was Lippman’s most towering achievement influencing political thought for decades to come. In it Lippman posits that the public exists merely as an illusion, myth, and inevitably a phantom; that the common man cannot be expected to know enough about events entirely beyond their control to cast an informed and meaningful vote. For Lippmann the public was a theoretical fiction and government was primarily an administrative problem to be solved as efficiently as possible, so that people could get on with their own individualistic pursuits —Carl Bybee Lippmann’s most powerfully argued and revealing books. In it he came fully to terms with the inadequacy of traditional democratic theory. —Ronald Steel
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The Phantom Public

The Phantom Public

by Walter Lippmann
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The Phantom Public

by Walter Lippmann

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From the best selling author of A Preface to Politics, Public Opinion, and Liberty and the News! The Phantom Public was Lippman’s most towering achievement influencing political thought for decades to come. In it Lippman posits that the public exists merely as an illusion, myth, and inevitably a phantom; that the common man cannot be expected to know enough about events entirely beyond their control to cast an informed and meaningful vote. For Lippmann the public was a theoretical fiction and government was primarily an administrative problem to be solved as efficiently as possible, so that people could get on with their own individualistic pursuits —Carl Bybee Lippmann’s most powerfully argued and revealing books. In it he came fully to terms with the inadequacy of traditional democratic theory. —Ronald Steel

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781515449546
Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 01/01/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 190
Sales rank: 215,484
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Lippmann, Walter

Table of Contents

PART I. THE DISENCHANTED MAN II. THE UNATTAINABLE IDEAL III. AGENTS AND BYSTANDERS. IV . WHAT THE PUBLIC DOES V . THE NEUTRALIZATION OF ARBITRARY FORCE PART II VI. THE QUESTION ARISTOTLE ASKED VII . THE NATURE OF A PROBLEM VIII . SOCIAL CONTRACTS IX . THE TWO QUESTIONS BEFORE THE PUBLIC X . THE MAIN VALUE OF PUBLIC DEBATE XI . THE DEFECTIVE RULE XII. THE CRITERIA OF REFORM XIII. THE PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC OPINION PART III XIV . SOCIETY IN ITS PLACE XV . ABSENTEE RULERS XVI THE REALMS OF DISORDER
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