Losurdo, Domenico,   1941-2018 <br/><br/>
Democracy or Bonapartism :  two centuries of war on democracy / 
Domenico Losurdo ; foreword by Luciano Canfora ; translated by David Broder. 
 - xiv, 338 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> First published as Democrazia o bonapartismo. Trionfo e decadenza del suff ragio universale, Torino, Italy : Bollati Boringhieri, 1993. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The fight for the vote: A tortuous and still-unfinished history -- A new tutor for the 'childlike' multitude -- An alternative to property qualifications: The origins of Bonapartism, from America to France -- The trumpets of the ruling classes and the bells of the subaltern -- The Bonapartist regime's baptism of fire -- Universal suffrage, proportional representation and the reaction against it -- The twentieth century: Between emancipation and disemancipation -- The triumph of soft Bonapartism. 
<br/><br/> "Explains the 'soft Bonapartism' that has emerged in the US and Italy, and which seems set to become the political regime of our time"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781784787318 (hardback) 1784787310 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2023041748 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Suffrage--History.<br/>Sufragio --Historia <br/>Representative government and representation--History.<br/>Gobierno representativo<br/>Bonapartism--History.<br/>Bonapartismo --Historia 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JF 831  / L881d 2024 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>325.3209