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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Tác giả chính: Van Reybrouck, David (Tác giả)
Tác giả khác: Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta) (author of introduction.), Waters, Liz (Thông dịch viên)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Dutch
Được phát hành: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2016.
Phiên bản:First US edition
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  • Crisis of legitimacy : support is crumbling
  • Crisis of efficiency : declining vigour
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  • Of populism
  • It's the fault of democracy : the diagnosis of the technocracy
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  • 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.