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Dominik Austrup, Marion Repetti, Andreas Avgousti, Th. W. Bottelier, and Antonin Lacelle-Webster

constraining rulers to obtain consent from their people” (102). It comes in two variants: the direct form Stasavage calls early democracy, which boasted constant if restricted political participation, and the indirect, representative government without mandates

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Nyerere and the African Theory of Democracy

Conrad John Masabo

circumstances where the element of freedom is the decisive factor” (Cory 1953, as quoted by Hunter 2015: 79 ). For Malcolm, since “democracy has many forms, thus, representative government as practiced in Great Britain is one; and it may not be audacious to

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What Is Democratic Theory?

Rikki Dean, Jean-Paul Gagnon, and Hans Asenbaum

, Bernard. 1997 . The Principles of Representative Government . Themes in the Social Sciences. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511659935 . 10.1017/CBO9780511659935 Mansbridge , Jane. 2003 . “ Rethinking

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Systematizing Democratic Systems Approaches

Seven Conceptual Building Blocks

Rikki Dean, Jonathan Rinne, and Brigitte Geissel

). Considerations on Representative Government . New York : Prometheus Books . Mouffe , Chantal. 2000 . “ Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism .” Political Science Series 72. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies. www

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Titus and Coriolanus in Tehran

Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Iran's Politics

Mohammadreza Hassanzadeh Javanian

establish a form of representative government leads to the bloody violence which constitutes the action of the play’. 12 Earlier in the production, Saturninus had sought Tamora's advice on bombarding the Senate, an idea that even the bloodthirsty Tamora

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The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness

Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire

Caroline Elkins

, Eileen P. Sullivan, “Liberalism and Imperialism: J. S. Mill’s Defense of the British Empire,” Journal of the History of Ideas 44, no. 4 (1983): 599–617. 15 John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government (New York: Create-Space, 2014), 4

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Precarious Time, Morality, and the Republic

New Granada, 1818–1853

Francisco A. Ortega

enlightenment [must be] the poles of a republic; morals and enlightenment are our prime necessities.” 30 Along with the classical tenants of representative government, Bolívar proposed the creation of a hereditary senate and a fourth power that functioned as a

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Processes of Territorialization in Mexico

Indigenous Government, Violence, and Comunalidad

Philipp Wolfesberger

existence of public property. Indigenous communities share an original meaning of communal property that cannot be reduced to public property. Still, empirical cases highlight the tension of push-and-pull between communal and representative governments

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Democracy's Conceptual Politics

Liberalism and Its Others

Christopher Hobson

.” Thesis Eleven 26 ( 1 ): 46 – 53 . https://doi.org/10.1177/072551369002600104 Manin , Bernard . 1996 . The Principles of Representative Government . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Mann , Michael . 2005 . The Dark Side of

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Toward a Grounded Theory of Democracy

A Trial Using Political Speeches from Different Times, Places, and Contexts

Rolf Frankenberger and Daniel Buhr

, whereas the fulfillment of the will of the people points at a more unspecific responsibility to bring about the will of the people. This could theoretically include an enlightened monarch as well as a representative government, or a strong party, as long