The Mortality of Republics and the Machiavellian Democracy of Jeffersonian Republicanism

• In Event: Demagoguery and Populism in the History of Political Thought

Brief Overview

This paper reintegrates Machiavelli into the republican tradition by focusing on his chief concern of republican mortality, and it next explores the Americanization of a Machiavellian political science with the Jeffersonian's liberal republicanism.

Author

• Christopher Brennan, Columbia University