books.google.com - While most American politics texts address American politics from a pluralist perspective, THE IRONY OF DEMOCRACY: AN UNCOMMON INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS, Fourteenth Edition, approaches the subject by addressing the theme of elitism and contrasting it with democratic theory and modern pluralist...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Irony_of_Democracy_An_Uncommon_Intro.html?id=olUohWAj5M8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics