Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century /

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To the Ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in a public space and arguing based on an agenda set by a randomly selected assembly of 500 other citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings in Northern Europe a few centuries later, it meant gathering every summer in a large field, a place where they held th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Landemore, Hélène, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Deliberative democracy.
Representative government and representation.
Political participation.
Deliberative democracy > Iceland > Case studies.
Démocratie délibérative.
Gouvernement représentatif.
Participation politique.
Démocratie délibérative > Islande > Études de cas.
PHILOSOPHY / Political
Deliberative democracy
Political participation
Representative government and representation
Iceland
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The crisis of representative democracy
  • The myth of direct democracy
  • Legitimacy and representation beyond elections (part one)
  • Legitimacy and representation beyond elections (part two)
  • The principles of open democracy
  • Let the people in! Lessons from a modern Viking saga
  • On the viability of open democracy
  • Conclusion : Open democracy in a global world.

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