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Against Elections: The Case for Democracy

By David van Reybrouck

Book information

Publisher
the Bodley Head
Year
2016
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2966812 bytes)
Pages
\132
Time added
2020-03-20 07:01:20

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About the Book About the Author Also by David Van Reybrouck Title Page Cover Epigraph I SYMPTOMS Enthusiasm and mistrust: The paradox of democracy Crisis of legitimacy: Support is crumbling Crisis of efficiency: Declining vigour II DIAGNOSES It’s the fault of politicians: The diagnosis of populism It’s the fault of democracy: The diagnosis of the technocracy It’s the fault of representative democracy: The diagnosis of direct democracy It’s the fault of electoral-representative democracy: A new diagnosis III PATHOGENESIS A democratic procedure: Drawing lots (antiquity and Renaissance) An aristocratic procedure: Elections (eighteenth century) The democratisation of elections: A bogus process (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) IV REMEDIES The revival of sortition: Deliberative democracy (late twentieth century) Democratic innovation in practice: An international quest (2004–2013) Democratic innovation in the future: Allotted assemblies Blueprint for a democracy based on sortition Timely appeal for a bi-representative system Conclusion Notes Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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