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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.