The Democracy That Never Was: A Critique of Liberal Democracy

by Gary Teeple

Liberal democracy is usually treated as an independent variable, as possessing the absolutes of democratic rule. Its variable forms, changing principles and practice, and conscious destruction by its own advocates, in particular the United States, however, suggest that it is not what it appears to be. This book argues that it is a dependent variable, the political form required by the changing configurations of national capital and their countervailing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031680197
• ISBN13: 9783031680199
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 574 Pages