America and Its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4251-2

Paperback

220 pages

September 2008, Polity

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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A brilliant analysis of the distinctive nature of American democracy and of the criticisms that have been leveled at it.
The framing of the analysis around the theme of anti-Americanism is very topical and would appeal to a potentially wider audience.
America and its Critics offers a distinctive interpretation of American democracy as method rather than model, and an original argument about the nature of American political exceptionalism.
This book won the European Amalfi Prize for the Social Sciences in 2006 - the most prestigious international prize for outstanding books in the social sciences.
Sergio Fabbrini knows the American political system extremely well, and teaches regularly at UC Berkeley.