TY - BOOK AU - Crenson,Matthew A. AU - Ginsberg,Benjamin ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public SN - 9781421430683 AV - JK1764 .C74 2002 KW - Politics and government KW - fast KW - Political participation KW - Democracy KW - Citizen participation KW - United States KW - Electronic books. KW - lcgft KW - local N1 - The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2002; Includes bibliographical references and index; From popular to personal democracy -- The rise and fall of the citizen -- Elections without voters -- Political parties: the old patronage and the new -- Disunited we stand -- From masses to mailing lists -- The jurisprudence of personal democracy -- Movements without members -- Privatizing the public -- Does anyone need citizens?; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72712/ ER -