How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule

Foreword
1. The Fight for the Vote: A Tortuous and Still-Unfinished History
2. A New Tutor for the ‘Childlike’ Multitude
3. An Alternative to Property Qualifications: The Origins of Bonapartism, from America to France
4. The Trumpets of the Ruling Classes and the Bells of the Subaltern
5. The Bonapartist Regime’s Baptism of Fire
6. Universal Suffrage, Proportional Representation and the Reaction Against It
7. The Twentieth Century: Between Emancipation and Disemancipation
8. The Triumph of Soft Bonapartism
Index