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  1. The principles of representative government
    Erschienen: 1997
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... mehr

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    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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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781461949107; 1461949106; 9780511659935; 0511659938
    RVK Klassifikation: CC 7800 ; ME 3700 ; MD 7480
    Schriftenreihe: Themes in the social sciences
    Schlagworte: Gouvernement représentatif; Representative government and representation; Representative government and representation; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Process ; Elections; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Process ; General; Representative government and representation; Democratie; Representatie (politicologie); Repräsentative Demokratie; Repräsentation
    Umfang: Online Ressource (ix, 243 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

    1.Direct democracy and representation: selection of officials in Athens2.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 office3.The principle of distinction.England.France.The United States4.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 right5.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.