Against elections : the case for democracy /
"Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck. "If you look at the decline in voter turnout and party membership, and at the way politicians are held in contempt, if you look at how difficult it is to form governments, how little they can do a...
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New York :
Seven Stories Press,
c2016.
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| Izdanje: | First US edition |
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| Povezana djela: | Online version:
Against elections |
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Sadržaj:
- The crisis of democracy / Kofi Annan
- Enthusiasm and mistrust : the paradox of democracy
- Crisis of legitimacy : support is crumbling
- Crisis of efficiency : declining vigour
- 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
- 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)
- 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.