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 |
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Print version::
Principles of representative government |
Съдържание:
- 1.
- Direct democracy and representation: selection of officials in Athens
- 2.
- The triumph of election.
- Lot and election in the republican tradition: the lessons of history.
- The political theory of election and lot in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- The triumph of election: consenting to power rather than holding office
- 3.
- The principle of distinction.
- England.
- France.
- The United States
- 4.
- A democratic aristocracy.
- The aristocratic character of election: a pure theory.
- The two faces of election: the benefits of ambiguity.
- Election and the principles of modern natural right
- 5.
- The verdict of the people.
- Partial independence of representatives.
- Freedom of public opinion.
- The repeated character of elections.
- 5.
- Metamorphoses of representative government.
- Parliamentarianism.
- Party democracy.
- "Audience" democracy.