Redeeming Democracy in America

(University Press of Kansas) The essays in this volume by the preeminent political theorist Wilson Carey McWilliams, who died in 2005, offer an analysis of the crisis in American citizenship and governance. From insights into the framers and the Constitution to reflections on America as “the technological Republic,” McWilliams shares a love for an older tradition of democracy, one based up on the active self-rule of self-governing citizens. Wilson Carey McWilliams was professor of political science at Rutgers University for 35 years. Susan J. McWilliams, his daughter, is an assistant professor of politics at Pomona College.