{"product_id":"books-the-populist-delusion-by-neema-parvini","title":"The Populist Delusion","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America since the Nixon era, which carried him into the presidency. Seen widely as a vindication of the people over elites, his failure to bring about any meaningful change was then seen as an aberration, a departure from a natural state where the people are sovereign and their representatives govern by their consent. This is the \u003cem\u003epopulist delusion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explodes that delusion. Beginning with the Italian elite school, Parvini shows the top-down and elite driven nature of politics by explicating one thinker per chapter: Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Schmitt, Jouvenel, Burnham, Francis, and Gottfried. The sobering picture that emerges is that the interests of the people have only ever been advanced by a tightly organized minority. Just as fire drives out fire, so an elite is only ever driven out by another elite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Populist Delusion\u003c\/em\u003e is the remedy for a self-defeating folk politics that has done the people a great disservice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53505441857809,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781922602442.jpg?v=1778096888","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-populist-delusion-by-neema-parvini","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}