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 h...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Landemore, Helene, 1976- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Deliberative democracy > Iceland > Case studies.
Political participation.
Representative government and representation.
Deliberative democracy.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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