Book review: American democracy: from Tocqueville to town halls to Twitter by Andrew J. Perrin

American Democracy offers a compellingly-argued rethinking of how we might conceptualise America’s democratic social landscape, not least by challenging canonical approaches focused on its more formalized, institutionalized aspects. Students of democratic theory, of civil society and the public sphere, of citizenship and political participation, and those interested in American politics and political development more generally should welcome Andrew J. Perrin’s insightful analysis, writes Liliana Riga