Democracy: How Direct?: Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era

by Herman Belz and James S. Fishkin

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For more than two hundred years Americans have been debating how direct a democracy they want. Many hold that representative government too seldom reflects the people's real views, while others counter that direct popular voting will lead to excesses of passion and deficits of deliberation. In Democracy: How Direct? Elliot Abrams brings together eminent scholars to discuss the issues surrounding the dilemma of a representative versus direct democracy...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0742523195

ISBN13:9780742523197

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.53 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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