Representative democracy : principles and genealogy / Nadia Urbinati.

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...

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Main Author: Urbinati, Nadia, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006.
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