TY  - BOOK
AU  - Urbinati,Nadia
TI  - Representative democracy: principles and genealogy 
SN  - 9780226842806 (electronic bk.)
AV  - JF1057 .U73 2006eb
U1  - 321.8 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Gouvernement représentatif
KW  - Démocratie
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Democratie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Representatie (politicologie)
KW  - დემოკრატია
KW  - მთავრობა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index
N2  - 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
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