discredit. Accordingly, the first half of the article discusses how earlier commentators developed their own theories of representative government in the context of a debate about the best polity for the Dutch provinces. The second half deals with Van
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Representative Government in the Dutch Provinces
The Controversy over the Stadtholderate (1705–1707) and Simon van Slingelandt
Bert Drejer
‘The Expenditure of a Million of British Sovereigns in this Otherwise Miserable Place’
Frontier Wars, Public Debt and the Cape’s Non-racial Constitution
Jeff Peires
Colonial Office. Finally, we will trace the narrative of the events which culminated in the emergence in 1854 of a Cape representative government, elected on a qualified but non-racial franchise. Peace Is Ruin Apart from the necessary expenses of
Democratic Representation and Legislative Theatre
Gustavo H. Dalaqua
debate and vote on in the assembly. Although I partially concur with it, I do not endorse Landemore's critique in its entirety because I do not suppose the adoption of direct participation mechanisms to be incompatible with representative government. By
The Modernity of Political Representation
Its Innovative Thrust and Transnational Semantic Transfers during the Sattelzeit (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Samuel Hayat and José María Rosales
Representation is a major and multifaceted concept of modern politics. Through open and regular elections, it shields the democratic character of representative governments, compelling politicians to pursue the interests of their constituencies and
Reflections on the Meaning of the “Crisis of Democracy”
Nadia Urbinati
democracy to electoral procedures yet could not make peace with the fact that those procedures would open the door to citizens’ participation and claimant movements. The paradox revealed a lack of understanding of representative government, which entails
Organized Interests and the Prospects of a Global Democracy
Leif Lewin
Globalization calls into question the fate of nation-states and, thereby, the kind of representative government that has developed within their confines. What is being challenged is, more precisely, the idea of political equality on which
Why History Matters for Democracy
John Keane
democracy (and openly contemptuous of the “pride and vanity” and “licentious habits” of Athens). It was silent about the complex origins of representative government in continental Europe and (characteristic of its times) ignorant of important contemporary
Common Democracy
Political Representation beyond Representative Democracy
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
incarnates a process of “commoning” representation and representative government. This process is bound to face numerous practical constraints in each case and cannot be immediately applied to all the various scales of contemporary democratic politics. But
Assessing Democracy In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Actu and the Role of Democratic Theory Today
Anastasia Deligiaouri and Jane Suiter
, J. S. 1972 ( 1861 ). Considerations on Representative Government in Utilitarianism, on Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government . Ed. H. B. Acton . London : Dent . Mouffe , C. 2000 . The Democratic Paradox . London
The End of Representative Politics, Revisited
Simon Tormey and Jean-Paul Gagnon
demos. I’m also thinking of Bernard Manin’s 1997 book, Principles of Representative Government , and the debate this has spurred between his work and Nadia Urbinati’s. It all expresses the problematic of democracy that we’ve inherited from the last 150