On the Autonomy of the Democratic State Condition:Very Good whom she loves and hates

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On the Autonomy of the Democratic State Condition:Very Good whom she loves and hatesIn this major revisionist study, Eric A. Nordlinger poses two critical questions about democratic politics. How are the public policy decisions of the democratic state in America and Europe to be explained? To what extent is the democratic state an autonomous entity, that is, a state that translates its own policy preferences into public policies? On the Autonomy of the Democratic State challenges the central assumption of liberal and Marxist