Representative Democracy: Principles and GenealogyUniversity of Chicago Press, 2006 - 328 páginas It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision making—and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible. As Urbinati shows, the idea that representation is incompatible with democracy stems from our modern concept of sovereignty, which identifies politics with a decision maker’s direct physical presence and the immediate act of the will. She goes on to contend that a democratic theory of representation can and should go beyond these identifications. Political representation, she demonstrates, is ultimately grounded in a continuum of influence and power created by political judgment, as well as the way presence through ideas and speech links society with representative institutions. Deftly integrating the ideas of such thinkers as Rousseau, Kant, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Paine, and the Marquis de Condorcet with her own, Urbinati constructs a thought-provoking alternative vision of democracy. |
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... Sovereign 60 Either Delegates or Representatives 62 Sovereign Unity: Symbiotic or Symbolic? 66 Two Models of Unification 69 The Sovereignty of the Will 72 A Privatistic Model of Delegation 75 The Travel Agent and a Minimalist ...
... Sovereign 60 Either Delegates or Representatives 62 Sovereign Unity: Symbiotic or Symbolic? 66 Two Models of Unification 69 The Sovereignty of the Will 72 A Privatistic Model of Delegation 75 The Travel Agent and a Minimalist ...
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... Sovereign Nation and Federalism's Threat 162 Democratic Republicanism 167 Democracy Surpassing Itself 172 6 A Republic of Citizens: Condorcet's Indirect Democracy 176 The Longue Dure of the Democratic Project in the Age of ...
... Sovereign Nation and Federalism's Threat 162 Democratic Republicanism 167 Democracy Surpassing Itself 172 6 A Republic of Citizens: Condorcet's Indirect Democracy 176 The Longue Dure of the Democratic Project in the Age of ...
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Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Representation and Democracy | 17 |
Rousseaus Unrepresentable Sovereign | 60 |
The Kantian Revision | 101 |
Sieyes Model of Representative Government | 138 |
Thomas Paine and the Perfecting of Simple Democracy | 162 |
Condorcets Indirect Democracy | 176 |
A Surplus of Politics | 223 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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