Representative Democracy: Principles and GenealogyUniversity of Chicago Press, 2008 M09 15 - 326 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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... candidate(s) in relation to her/his own skills and qualities and those of all other candidates. The political process consists in a psy- chosocial game of comparison between individuals—the candidate(s) by the elector(s)—with no ...
... candidate(s) in relation to her/his own skills and qualities and those of all other candidates. The political process consists in a psy- chosocial game of comparison between individuals—the candidate(s) by the elector(s)—with no ...
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... candidate and the electors sealed by elections. Since leaders and institutions are susceptible to organized social influences more than to the influence of scattered individuals, the dualism between representative institutions and ...
... candidate and the electors sealed by elections. Since leaders and institutions are susceptible to organized social influences more than to the influence of scattered individuals, the dualism between representative institutions and ...
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... candidates from their social class foregrounded the role of speech and ideas in politics and finally the unifying function of representation . A similar process took place in France with the revolution of 1789. Here too , elections gave ...
... candidates from their social class foregrounded the role of speech and ideas in politics and finally the unifying function of representation . A similar process took place in France with the revolution of 1789. Here too , elections gave ...
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... candidates' personal qualities, rather than their political ideas and projects. According to this approach, representation is not and cannot be a process, nor can it be a political issue (implying for instance a claim of ...
... candidates' personal qualities, rather than their political ideas and projects. According to this approach, representation is not and cannot be a process, nor can it be a political issue (implying for instance a claim of ...
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Contenido
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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 |
Index | 317 |
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