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The Crisis of Representative Democracy
Open Democracy, 2020This chapter discusses the crisis of democracy. While this crisis can be attributed in part to specific empirical corruptions, which are themselves likely the result of contingent external shocks, the crisis of democracy can also be traced, more ...
Hélène Landemore
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The return of oligarchy? Threats to representative democracy in Latin America
, 2020Long regarded by students of comparative politics as an important if muddled concept, oligarchy, as I define it, denotes modes of rule in which public office holders govern with a view to the private interests of the wealthy.
M. Cameron
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Representative Democracy as Defensible Epistocracy
American Political Science Review, 2019Epistocratic arrangements are widely rejected because there will be reasonable disagreement about which citizens count as epistemically superior and an epistemically superior subset of citizens may be biased in ways that undermine their ability to ...
Dimitri Landa, Ryan Pevnick
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An Economic Model of Representative Democracy
, 1997This paper develops an approach to the study of democratic policy-making where politicians are selected by the people from those citizens who present themselves as candidates for public office. The approach has a number of attractive features.
T. Besley, Stephen Coate
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Despite the not-so-distant invocations of the “end of history,” representative democracy is, today, under siege even from corners where one once might have expected strong sympathy and support.
Dimitri Landa, Ryan Pevnick
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Representative Democracy and the Problem of Institutionalizing Local Participatory Governance
, 2017Representative Democracy and the Problem of Institutionalizing Local Participatory ...
Nils Hertting
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A Legitimacy Crisis of Representative Democracy
, 2017This chapter presents the research questions and outline of the book, providing a brief review of the state of the art of legitimacy research in established democracies, and discusses the recurring theme of crisis throughout this literature since the ...
J. Thomassen, C. Ham
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The Contemporary Crisis of Representative Democracy
, 2014Is there a crisis of democracy? At one level democracy is always in crisis, and as authoritative historians of representative democracy note, there has never been a period in the evolution of representative democracy when someone somewhere has not ...
S. Tormey
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Young People and the Ageing Electorate: Breaking the Unwritten Rule of Representative Democracy
, 2014Population ageing means there are, and will be, far more older voters within the electorate. This may exacerbate the apparent marginalisation of young people within the democratic process, and more importantly, undermine the demographic context within ...
C. Berry
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Petitions Systems: Contributing to Representative Democracy?
, 2013Focusing on case studies of five different petitions systems, but also drawing on the Coalition government’s new e-petitions system, this article identifies a number of characteristics of petitions systems. It argues that as a tool for participation they
Catherine Bochel
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