The Dark Side of Politics

Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life.

This series of scholarly essays explores the unpleasant realities of modern politics—and American politics in particular—by examining how self-interest, war, violence, deception, and institutional failure continue to characterize the political landscape.

This series of scholarly chapters explores the unpleasant realities of modern politics – and American politics in particular – by examining how self- interest, war, violence, deception and institutional failure continue to characterize the political landscape.

Author Benjamin Ginsberg argues that the political world in which we like to think we live – the world of civic engagement, representative government and principled political discourse – is fleeting and fragile, resting uneasily upon the foundation of a harsh and dark reality.

Making a fundamental contribution to our understandings of politics, this book is an important read for students and scholars of American Politics and Government.

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