Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century / Hélène Landemore.
Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century / Hélène Landemore.
Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century / Hélène Landemore.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/4359
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 243 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
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 viabi...
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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New Jersey
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[2020]
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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 held their own annual "parliament," and similarly talkin...
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Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century / Hélène Landemore.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/4359
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74VKaMleKo4Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMleKo4Z
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9780691181998
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321.8
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991024352617802626
