Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century /
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 th...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2020]
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv10crczs |
Mục lục:
- Introduction
- 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 viability of open democracy
- Conclusion : Open democracy in a global world.