Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies

by Paul Starr

Book Overview

An 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300238479
• ISBN13: 9780300238471
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"