A Common Country: Solidarity and the Making of American Democracy - Couverture souple

Pippenger, Nathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0197811744 ISBN 13 : 9780197811740

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2025

Synopsis

As their democracy faces an array of crises Americans confront a recurring question: whether they really constitute a democratic “people” at all. Reactionaries promote a nostalgic ideal of American nationalism, while implying that many of their compatriots don't belong to their imagined nation. In response, many egalitarians are suspicious of appeals to shared civic belonging―seeing them as outmoded, intolerant, and potentially dangerous.

In A Common Country, Nathan Pippenger shows that for American democracy to flourish, egalitarians must not reject the ideal of shared American peoplehood but instead put forth their own distinctive claim to its meaning. Pippenger shows that at key periods―from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era, New Deal, and Civil Rights era―democratic reformers realized that the transformative changes they sought would succeed only if the meaning of “We the People” expanded to include everyone in the country. Pippenger's analysis of this tradition shows not only that democracy requires solidarity but also that solidarity need not presuppose any common trait other than the fact of shared political membership. Examining contemporary problems of nativism, racial injustice, and ascendant oligarchy, A Common Country weaves together history and normative political theory to intervene in urgent debates over nationalism, citizenship, and the fate of democracy. Its distinctive argument is that the solidarity needed to achieve American democracy is not awaiting discovery in some elusive form of unity―rather, it must be consciously cultivated among citizens who share no more, and no less, than a common country.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nathan Pippenger is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. He is a political theorist with broad research interests in democracy, citizenship, and the politics of peoplehood, especially in the context of the United States. His research has appeared in venues including The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Ethics and International Affairs, Political Research Quarterly, and The Review of Politics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197811744
• ISBN 13: 9780197811740
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Oxford University Press; https://corp.oup.com/; ; WMF Platz 1; Geislingen/Steige; Baden-W?rttemberg; 73312; Allemagne