Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government

ISBN-13: 9780521761031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str.

Adam Przeworski

Opis

The book analyzes the sources of widespread dissatisfaction with democracies around the world and identifies directions for feasible reforms.

Recenzje

“If you have time to read one book about democracy, and only one, this should be it. It contains an engaging synthesis of arguments that Adam Przeworski has been developing for decades, leavened by an astonishing wealth of historical and contemporary data. Przeworski supplies a hardheaded defense of democracy as the best system yet devised to prevent politics from degenerating into civil war. He also explains why many democracies could do better at managing collective self government so as to strengthen freedom and choice, and he offers realistic strategies for reform. This is applied political theory at its best.”
—Ian Shapiro, Yale University, author of The Real World of Democratic Theory

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Self-government of the people; 3. A brief history of representative institutions; 4. Equality; 5. Choice and participation; 6. Agency; 7. Liberty; 8. Democracy as an implementation of self-government in our times.