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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Author	Nancy MacLean
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	June 13, 2017
Pages	368
ISBN	1101980966
OCLC	987376346[1]

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America is a non-fiction book by Nancy MacLean published in 2017.^[2] Democracy in Chains is a history of the impact of economist James Buchanan and his public choice theory, on American politics. According to the Boston Review, the "book has led to an enormous, highly charged debate" pitting Buchanan supporters against his critics.^[3] MacLean wrote that James McGill Buchanan, the winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, had pursued a program of suppressing democracy and political liberty in the name of economic freedom.^[4]

Content[edit]

MacLean's Democracy in Chains is a history of the "public choice" economist James Buchanan and his impact on American politics." According to the Boston Review, the "book has led to an enormous, highly charged debate" pitting Buchanan supporters against his critics.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Her book claims that Buchanan saw a conflict between "economic freedom and political liberty", and that he sought "conspiratorial secrecy" in pursuit of "a hidden programme for suppressing democracy on behalf of the very rich".^[4]

Alleged errors, omissions, inaccuracies[edit]

Reviews in Reason, xyz have said that MacLean made errors regarding her sources, some quotations and the accuracy of the principal thesis underlying the book.^[3] ^[3]^[5]

Conspiracy theory[edit]

Political scientists Henry Farrell (of George Washington University) and Steven Teles (of Johns Hopkins University) described the book as "conspiracy theory in the guise of intellectual history."^[3] "Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right".^[3]

Buchanan's alleged support of segregation[edit]

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Buchanan and apartheid[edit]

Reason's Doherty, questioned MacLean's claim that Buchanan supported apartheid.^[6]

Reviews[edit]

The book has been praised by XYZ and criticized by XYZ.

Awards[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

MacLean, Nancy (2017). Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. Penguin. ISBN 9781101980989.
Onion, Rebecca (2017-06-22). "What Is the Far Right's Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
Diane Ravitch. "Big Money Rules". New York Review Books. Retrieved 4 December 2017. 7 December 2017 issue
Farrell, Henry; Teles, Steven (August 30, 2017). "When Politics Drives Scholarship". Boston Review. MacLean's Democracy in Chains is a history of the "public choice" economist James Buchanan and his impact on American politics." According to the Boston Review, the "book has led to an enormous, highly charged debate" pitting Buchanan supporters against his critics.
Tanenhaus, Sam. "The Architect of the Radical Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
"A despot in disguise: one man's mission to rip up democracy". The Guardian. July 19, 2017.
"Democracy's Critics".
Onion, Rebecca (June 22, 2017). "What Is the Far Right's Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority". Slate.
"The Right's War Against Liberal Democracy". New Republic.
Karlin, Mark (July 10, 2017). "This Libertarian Strategy to Make America as Screwed-Up as Texas". AlterNet.
Moreton, Bethany (2017-08-10). "Kochonomics: The Racist Roots of Public Choice Theory". Boston Review. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
"The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America". BillMoyers.com. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
"'Democracy In Chains' Traces The Rise Of American Libertarianism". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
Steinbaum, Marshall (14 August 2017). "The Book that Explains Charlottesville". Boston Review.
"Opinion Yet more dubious claims in Nancy MacLean's 'Democracy in Chains'". Washington Post.
"Opinion Some dubious claims in Nancy MacLean's 'Democracy in Chains,' continued". Washington Post.
"Opinion How influential was James Buchanan among libertarians?". Washington Post.
Adler, Jonathan. "Opinion | Does 'Democracy in Chains' paint an accurate picture of James Buchanan?". Washington Post.</ref> *Michael Munger. "On the Origins and Goals of Public Choice". The Independent Institute.
"Opinion | Who wants to put democracy in chains?". Washington Post.
"Opinion | Duke professor Georg Vanberg on 'Democracy in Chains'". Washington Post.
Carden, Art; Geloso, Vincent; Magness, Phillip W. (July 25, 2017). "Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics". Social Science Research Network. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Magness, Phillip. "How Nancy MacLean Went Whistlin' Dixie". historynewsnetwork.org.
"On Buchanan's Intellectual History and MacLean's Missing Leviathan". historynewsnetwork.org.
Carden, Art; Magness, Phil (July 17, 2017). "Buchanan the Evil Genius". Social Science Research Network. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Horwitz, Steven (July 24, 2017). "Confirmation Bias Unchained: Nancy Maclean on James Buchanan, the History of Public Choice Theory, and Libertarianism". Social Science Research Network. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)</ref>
"What Nancy MacLean Gets Wrong About James Buchanan". Reason.com. July 21, 2017.
"To Duke Historian Nancy MacLean, Advocating Free Markets Is Something 'The World Has Never Seen Anything Like...Before'". Reason.com. August 2, 2017.
Farrant, Andrew; Tarko, Vlad (16 January 2018). "James M. Buchanan's 1981 visit to Chile: Knightian democrat or defender of the 'Devil's fix'?". The Review of Austrian Economics: 1–20. doi:10.1007/s11138-017-0410-3. ISSN 0889-3047.
Parry, Marc (2017). Nancy MacLean Responds to Her Critics.
Parry, Marc (July 19, 2017). "A New History of the Right Has Become an Intellectual Flashpoint". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Flaherty, Coleen (July 12, 2017). "Stealth Attack on Liberal Scholar?". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
Zakaria, Rafia (9 October 2017). "How Amazon reviews became the new battlefield of US Politics". The Guardian.
"Opinion | Nancy MacLean responds to her critics". Washington Post.
"Opinion | Did Nancy MacLean make stuff up in 'Democracy in Chains'?". Washington Post.
"Opinion | Georg Vanberg: Democracy in Chains and James M. Buchanan on school integration". Washington Post.
"Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them". Vox.
"Be Clear-Eyed About Democracy's Weaknesses". Bloomberg.com. July 21, 2017.
Boushey, Heather (15 August 2017). "How the Radical Right Played the Long Game and Won". The New York Times.
Rakove, Jack. "Critical Inquiry". criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu.
Burns, Jennifer. "Book Review: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean".

References[edit]

^ OCLC
^ MacLean, Nancy (June 13, 2017). Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. New York: Viking Press. p. 368. ISBN 1101980966. OCLC 987376346.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cite error: The named reference VOX_Farrell_20171009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Monbiot, George (July 19, 2017). "A Despot in Disguise: One Man's Mission to Rip Up Democracy". The Guardian. Retrieved July 19, 2017. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ Marciano, Alain; Fleury, Jean-Baptiste (2018). "The Sound of Silence: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America". Journal of Economic Literature. 56 (4): 1492–1537. doi:10.1257/jel.20181502. ISSN 0022-0515. In a review by economists Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano in the Journal of Economic Literature, they write, "MacLean's account is marred by many misunderstandings about public choice theory" and "in the midst of abundant archival material, her historical narrative is, at best sketchy, and is replete with significantly flawed arguments, misplaced citations, and dubious conjectures. Overall, MacLean tends to overinterpret certain aspects in Buchanan's life and thought, while she overlooks others that are equally important in understanding his work and influence."
^ ^a ^b Doherty, Brian (July 20, 2017). "What Nancy MacLean Gets Wrong About James Buchanan". Reason. Retrieved February 17, 2019. In particular, the claim that Buchanan supported segregation has been disputed as untrue and contradicted by evidence that MacLean's book omits. Buchanan played a key role in bringing prominent South African apartheid critic W.H. Hutt as guest lecturer to the University of Virginia in 1965, during which he also sharply condemned Jim Crow laws. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)

[1] OCLC

[Maclean_20170613_Democracy-2] MacLean, Nancy (June 13, 2017). Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. New York: Viking Press. p. 368. ISBN 1101980966. OCLC 987376346.

[VOX_Farrell_20171009-3] Cite error: The named reference VOX_Farrell_20171009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Monbiot_theguardian_20170729-4] Monbiot, George (July 19, 2017). "A Despot in Disguise: One Man's Mission to Rip Up Democracy". The Guardian. Retrieved July 19, 2017. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[JEL_Marciano_2008-5] Marciano, Alain; Fleury, Jean-Baptiste (2018). "The Sound of Silence: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America". Journal of Economic Literature. 56 (4): 1492–1537. doi:10.1257/jel.20181502. ISSN 0022-0515. In a review by economists Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano in the Journal of Economic Literature, they write, "MacLean's account is marred by many misunderstandings about public choice theory" and "in the midst of abundant archival material, her historical narrative is, at best sketchy, and is replete with significantly flawed arguments, misplaced citations, and dubious conjectures. Overall, MacLean tends to overinterpret certain aspects in Buchanan's life and thought, while she overlooks others that are equally important in understanding his work and influence."

[Reason_Doherty_2017-6] Doherty, Brian (July 20, 2017). "What Nancy MacLean Gets Wrong About James Buchanan". Reason. Retrieved February 17, 2019. In particular, the claim that Buchanan supported segregation has been disputed as untrue and contradicted by evidence that MacLean's book omits. Buchanan played a key role in bringing prominent South African apartheid critic W.H. Hutt as guest lecturer to the University of Virginia in 1965, during which he also sharply condemned Jim Crow laws. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)

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