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Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose

Door Roslyn Fuller

Categorie
Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer
#269657
Titel
Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose
Auteur
Fuller, Roslyn
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London, Zed Books
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
1783605421
ISBN13
9781783605422
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Democracy does not deliver on the things we have assumed are its natural outcomes. This, coupled with a growing sense of malaise in both new and established democracies forms the basis to the assertion made by some, that these are not democracies at all.

Through considerable, impressive empirical analysis of a variety of voting methods, across twenty different nations, Roslyn Fuller presents the data that makes this contention indisputable. Proving that the party which forms the government rarely receives the majority of the popular vote, that electoral systems regularly produce manufactured majorities and that the better funded side invariably wins such contests in both elections and referenda, Fuller's findings challenge the most fundamental elements of both national politics and broa... (Lees verder)der society.

Beast and Gods argues for a return to democracy as perceived by the ancient Athenians. Boldly arguing for the necessity of the Aristotelian assumption that citizens are agents whose wishes and aims can be attained through participation in politics, and through an examination of what "goods" are provided by democracy, Fuller offers a powerful challenge to the contemporary liberal view that there are no "goods" in politics, only individual citizens seeking to fulfil their particular interests.
Pagina's
414
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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