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The principles of representative government /
Bernard Manin's challenging book defines the key features of modern democratic institutions. For us representative government has come to seem inseparable from democracy. But its modern history begins, as Professor Manin shows, as a consciously chosen alternative to popular self-rule. In the de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Themes in the social sciences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Bernard Manin's challenging book defines the key features of modern democratic institutions. For us representative government has come to seem inseparable from democracy. But its modern history begins, as Professor Manin shows, as a consciously chosen alternative to popular self-rule. In the debates which led up to the new constitution of the United States, for the first time, a new form of republic was imagined and elaborated, in deliberate contrast to the experiences of ancient republics from Athens to Renaissance Italy. The balance between aristocratic and democratic components within this novel state form was not, as has been widely supposed, a consequence of a deliberate mystification of its real workings; it was a rationally planned aspect of its basic structure. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461949107 1461949106 9780511659935 0511659938 1139882007 9781139882002 1107385008 9781107385009 0511959761 9780511959769 1107383765 9781107383760 1306148251 9781306148252 1107394996 9781107394995 1107390206 9781107390201 1107398622 9781107398627 |