Democracy Incorporated

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliche.But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all?In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled?Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"?Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive--and where elites are eager to keep them that way.At best the nation has become a "managed democracy" where the public is shepherded, not sovereign.At worst it is a place where corporate power no longer answers to state controls.Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies.Wolin ex