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Contemporary Forms of Representative Democracy
In this paper, the author examines contemporary forms of representative democracy in the light of three theoretical and ideological conflicts. The first conflict concerns those who strive for a consolidated representative democracy, and develop theories ...
Klaus von Beyme
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Referendums as Representative Democracy
In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues no. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways that voters give direction to their representatives.
Trueblood, Leah, Trueblood, Leah,
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Consistent representative democracy [PDF]
I would like to thank John Duggan, Larry Epstein, Biung-Ghi Ju, Roger Lagunoff, Leonardo Martinez, Josef Perktold, Francesco Squintani, William Thomson, and Chun-Hsien Yeh for useful conversations. All errors are my own.
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The main goal of this article is to explore the relationship between populism and representative democracy. The paper is divided into two parts.
Enes Kulenović
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The purpose of this study is to determine the function and role of representative bodies in the Indonesian constitutional system by looking at the journey of democracy in Indonesia.
Firman Freaddy Busroh
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Democracy and Social Movements: A Critical Review on the Book Can Democracy Be Saved? Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements [PDF]
This article reviews the book Can Democracy Be Saved? Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements Written by Donatella Della Porta. Della Porta’s main question in this book is, "Can democracy be saved?” And his response is to “going beyond its ...
Behnam Joodi, Mohammad Yeganeh
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Representative Democracy in Australian Local Government
In an assessment of representative democracy in Australian local government, this paper considers long-run changes in forms of political representation, methods of vote counting, franchise arrangements, numbers of local government bodies and elected ...
Colin Hearfield, Brian Dollery
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CRISIS OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN SPAIN
The article examines the crisis of representative democracy in Spain, which is characterized by the growth of the population’s critical attitudes towards politicians and political institutions and the decline of the latter’s influence.
Sergey Khenkin
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Equality as the name of democracy - Bogdana Koljević: Democracy of contemporary French poststructuralism, Serbian State Publisher of Textbooks, Belgrade, 2018 [PDF]
This exceptional book for our public opens dilemmas about the potential of democracy as it is, an opinion which is frequently taken for granted or rejected here, in a rather arbitrary manner.
Bratina Boris R.
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Direct and Representative Democracy. The Debate in Revolutionary France (1789-1795)
This essay explores the debate concerning the idea of democracy in the French Revolution (1789-1795). It shows that this idea is based upon representative democracy as well as direct democracy, maintaining a complex and precarious equilibrium between the
Antonio Senta
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