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...
| Основен автор: | Manin, Bernard. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English French |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Серия: |
Themes in the social sciences.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=616948 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Principles of representative government |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (ix, 243 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781461949107 1461949106 9780511659935 0511659938 |