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Representative democracy : principles and genealogy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226842806 0226842800 9780226842783 0226842789 128196672X 9781281966728 9786611966720 6611966722 |