Open democracy reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century

Open democracy reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century

"To the Ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in a public space and arguing based on an agenda set by a randomly selected assembly of 500 other citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings in Northern Europe a few centuries later, it meant gathering every summer in a large field, a place where they h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Landemore, Hélène, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Iceland
Deliberative democracy.
Representative government and representation.
Political participation.
Deliberative democracy > Iceland > Case studies.
Deliberative democracy
Political participation
Representative government and representation
PHILOSOPHY / Political
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Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The crisis of representative democracy
  • The myth of direct democracy
  • Legitimacy and representation beyond elections (part one)
  • Legitimacy and representation beyond elections (part two)
  • The principles of open democracy
  • Let the people in! Lessons from a modern Viking saga
  • On the viability of open democracy
  • Conclusion: Open democracy in a global world.

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