Democracy incorporated: managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism

Abstract

Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii preview 1 Chapter One: Myth in the Making 4 Chapter Two: Totalitarianism's Inversion: Beginnings of the Imaginary of a Permanent Global War 15 Chapter Three: Totalitarianism's Inversion, Democracy's Perversion 41 Chapter Four: The New World of Terror 69 Chapter Five: The Utopian Theory of Superpower: The Official Version 82 Chapter Six: The Dynamics of Transformation 95 Chapter Seven: The Dynamics of the Archaic 114 Chapter Eight: The Politics of Superpower: Managed Democracy 131 Chapter Nine: Intellectual Elites against Democracy 159 Chapter Ten: Domestic Politics in the Era of Superpower and Empire 184 Chapter Eleven: Inverted Totalitarianism: Antecedents and Precedents 211 Chapter Twelve: Demotic Moments 238 Chapter Thirteen: Democracy's Prospects: Looking Backwards 259 Notes 293 Index 339