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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 328 Seiten)
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9780226842806
Content:
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 mode of democratic decision making-and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible.As Urbinati shows, the idea that representation is incompatible with
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Representation and Democracy; Rousseau's Unrepresentable Sovereign; Will and Judgment: The Kantian Revision; A Nation of Electors: Sieye's Model of Representative Government; Thomas Paine and the Perfecting of Simple Democracy; A Republic of Citizens: Condorcet's Indirect Democracy; Conclusion: A Surplus of Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226842783
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226842790
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Urbinati, Nadia, 1955 - Representative democracy Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006 ISBN 0226842789
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226842783
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Repräsentative Demokratie
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Politische Philosophie
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