The phantom public (Registro nro. 117690)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | HM |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lippmann, Walter, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1889-1974 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The phantom public |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Public |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-10-02 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Sean/IB@DP |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The phantom public" by Walter Lippmann is a treatise on democratic theory written in the early 20th century. It argues that the omnicompetent, sovereign citizen imagined by democratic dogma does not exist, and that public opinion is intermittent, external to real decision-making, and best used to align force behind workable rules rather than to govern directly. The work reframes elections as mobilizations that substitute for civil war and proposes practical limits and responsibilities for the public’s role in politics. The opening of this work portrays a disengaged citizenry and uses evidence of widespread nonvoting to show that expecting the public to master complex affairs is unrealistic. It dismisses standard remedies—better schooling, moral exhortation, more direct democracy, or socialization of industry—as unable to produce an all-knowing public, and recasts citizens chiefly as bystanders whose votes align support rather than direct policy. It then sketches an ideal of public action: to neutralize arbitrary force, enable settlements by consent, and leave substantive problem-solving to those directly responsible, with government acting as a professional intermediary. Next, it defines “problems” as disharmonies created by uneven change (illustrated by population pressure, automobiles in cities, naval ratios, and economic scarcity), and argues that rights and duties are enforceable promises shaping a workable modus vivendi. Finally, it says the public should ask only two questions—whether a rule is defective and who can mend it—using coarse tests of assent and conformity, insisting on open debate to expose special pleading, and, at scale, choosing between Ins and Outs when crises persist. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Political science |
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| Uncontrolled term | Public opinion |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/phantompublic0000walt/page/n3/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/phantompublic0000walt/page/n3/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76966">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76966</a> |
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