Ebook: Representative democracy : principles and genealogy
Author: Urbinati Nadia
- Tags: Representative government and representation, Democracy, Gouvernement représentatif, Démocratie, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy, Democratie, Representatie (politicologie)
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- City: Chicago
- Language: English
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It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine?s subversive view that?Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,? Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate Read more...