By Bernard Manin
The thesis of this unique and provocative ebook is that consultant executive will be understood as a mix of democratic and undemocratic parts. demanding the conventionally held perspectives at the topic, Professor Manin reminds us that whereas this day consultant associations and democracy seem as almost indistinguishable, while consultant executive used to be first demonstrated in Europe and the US, it used to be designed towards democracy right. the writer identifies the basic beneficial properties of democratic associations and studies the historical past in their program.
Read Online or Download The Principles of Representative Government (Themes in the Social Sciences) PDF
Similar elections books
Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts
The 2000 Presidential election led to a collision of historical past, legislations, and the courts. It produced a impasse that dragged out the outcome for over a month, and consequences--real and imagined--that promise to pull on for years. within the first in-depth examine of the election and its litigious aftermath, pass judgement on Posner surveys the historical past and idea of yankee electoral legislation and perform, analyzes which Presidential candidate ''really'' gained the preferred vote in Florida, surveys the litigation that ensued, evaluates the courts, the attorneys, and the commentators, and ends with a blueprint for reforming our Presidential electoral practices.
Passages to the Presidency: From Campaigning to Governing
Examines the careers of 4 presidents and explores the ways that the political approach is altering their function.
Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition
This present day, electoral authoritarianism represents the most typical type of political regime within the constructing global - and the only we all know least approximately. Filling within the lacuna, this new booklet provides state-of-the-art examine at the inner dynamics of electoral authoritarian regimes. each one concise, jargon-free bankruptcy addresses a particular empirical puzzle at the foundation of cautious cross-national comparability.
Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary
AT STAKE: the way forward for AMERICAThe 2016 election is really America's Armageddon—the final and decisive conflict to save lots of the USA, a struggle to defeat Hillary Clinton and the forces trying to flout our constitutional executive and exchange it with an omnipotent president sponsored up via an activist judiciary that solutions to nobody.
Extra resources for The Principles of Representative Government (Themes in the Social Sciences)
Example text
The Florentine republicans had for a while hesitated between lot and election, bringing about an explicit debate about the respective merits of the two methods of appointment.
D e m o s t h e n e s , Prooemia, 12. In s o m e editions, this P r o o e m i o n is n u m b e r e d 13. Plato, Protagoras, 319 D . 62 This myth constitutes a defense of the principle of isegoria: so far as government is concerned, any citizen, no matter who, is sufficiently qualified for his opinion to merit at least a hearing. Lot was also associated with the principle of equality, but this link is more difficult to interpret. Contemporary historians disagree on the subject. Some, like M. I. 63 Others echo Hansen in claiming that it was chiefly authors hostile to democracy (Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates) who established a link between lot and the democratic ideal of equality, rather than the democrats themselves.
Election had predominated in ancient Rome, as it did in Venice. The Venetian republic was even seen by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century observers as the archetype of the elective republic. The Florentine republicans had for a while hesitated between lot and election, bringing about an explicit debate about the respective merits of the two methods of appointment.