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portada Democracy Defended Hardback (Contemporary Political Theory)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
500
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.3 x 16.4 x 3.6 cm
Weight
0.91 kg.
ISBN
0521827086
ISBN13
9780521827089
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Democracy Defended Hardback (Contemporary Political Theory)

Gerry MacKie (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

Democracy Defended Hardback (Contemporary Political Theory) - MacKie, Gerry

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Synopsis "Democracy Defended Hardback (Contemporary Political Theory) "

Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In this powerful book, Gerry Mackie confronts and subdues these long-standing doubts about democratic governance. Problems of cycling, agenda control, strategic voting, and dimensional manipulation are not sufficiently harmful, frequent, or irremediable, he argues, to be of normative concern. Mackie also examines every serious empirical illustration of cycling and instability, including Rikers famous argument that the US Civil War was due to arbitrary dimensional manipulation. Almost every empirical claim is erroneous, and none is normatively troubling, Mackie says. This spirited defence of democratic institutions should prove both provocative and influential.

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