TY - BOOK AU - Losurdo,Domenico AU - Broder,David AU - Canfora,Luciano TI - Democracy or Bonapartism: two centuries of war on democracy SN - 9781784787318 (hardback) AV - JF 831 L881d 2024 U1 - 325.3209 PY - 2024/// CY - London, New York PB - Verso KW - Suffrage KW - History KW - Sufragio KW - Historia KW - Representative government and representation KW - Gobierno representativo KW - Bonapartism KW - Bonapartismo N1 - First published as Democrazia o bonapartismo. Trionfo e decadenza del suff ragio universale, Torino, Italy : Bollati Boringhieri, 1993; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "Explains the 'soft Bonapartism' that has emerged in the US and Italy, and which seems set to become the political regime of our time"-- ER -