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"There are certain moments, such as the American founding or the Civil Rights Movement, that we revisit again and again as instances of democratic triumph, and there are other moments that haunt us as instances of democratic failure. How should we view moments of democratic failure, when both the law and citizens forsake justice? Do such moments reveal a wholesale failure of democracy or a more contested failing, pointing to what could have been, and still might be? Public Trials reveals the considerable stakes of how we understand democratic failure. Maxwell argues against a tendency in the…
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3 editions- Hardcover · English · 2014Oxford University Press · 256 pages · 9780199383740
- Other · English · 2016Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 256 pages · 9780190649845
- Other · English · 2014Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9781322166407
Hastings, warren, 1732-1818Burke, edmund, 1729-1797Dreyfus, alfred, 1859-1935Zola, emile, 1840-1902Eichmann, adolf, 1906-1962Arendt, hannah, 1906-1975DemocracyJustice, administration of