Good government : democracy beyond elections /

Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rosanvallon, Pierre, 1948- (Author)
Other Authors: DeBevoise, M. B. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Political science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Democracy
Political science
Demokratie
Good Governance
Legitimität
Politische Beteiligung
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From one democracy to another
  • I. Executive power: Consecration of the law and demotion of the executive
  • The cult of impersonality and its metamorphoses
  • The age of rehabilitation
  • Two temptations
  • II. The presidentialization of democracies: The pioneering experiments: 1848 and Weimar
  • From Gaullist exception to standard model
  • Unworkable and unavoidable
  • Limiting illiberalism
  • III. A democracy of appropriation: The governed and their governors
  • Legibility
  • Responsibility
  • Responsiveness
  • IV. A democracy of trust: The good ruler in historical perspective
  • Plain speaking
  • Integrity
  • Conclusion: The second democratic revolution.

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