Open Democracy (eBook)

Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century

Helene Landemore (Autor)

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2020
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20872-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."e;-Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people-with the right suit, accent, wealth, and connections-are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the lost openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy in which power is genuinely accessible to ordinary citizens.Helene Landemore favors the ideal of "e;representing and being represented in turn"e; over direct-democracy approaches. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Landemore recommends centering political institutions around the "e;open mini-public"e;-a large, jury-like body of randomly selected citizens gathered to define laws and policies for the polity, in connection with the larger public. She also defends five institutional principles as the foundations of an open democracy: participatory rights, deliberation, the majoritarian principle, democratic representation, and transparency.Open Democracy demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, today more than ever, urgently needed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus., 1 table
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Schlagworte: 1944 constitution • Access IS • Accountability • activism • affair • ALL THINGS • Alternative Way • Anti-Federalism • aristocracy • Athenian democracy • authoritarianism • authorization • ballot box • Bernie Sanders • Case study • citizen assemblies • Citizen Convention on Climate Change • citizens' assembly • classical Athens • climate change • Consideration • Constitution • constitutional amendment • Constitutional Dictatorship • Contemporary Society • Cosmopolitan Democracy • credential • crisis of democracy • Criticism • Crowdsourcing • decentralization • Decision-Making • de facto • Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy • Democracy • Democracy and Knowledge • Democracy When the People Are Thinking • democratic confederalism • democratic crisis • democratic deficit • democratic institutions • democraticity • Democratic representation • Democratization • Direct Democracy • Disenchantment • distrust • Division of Labour • dynamic inclusiveness • economic forces • Economic Inequality • Election • electoral paradigm • electoral representation • Elite • Emerging Technologies • Equality before the law • Equal Opportunity • European Parliament • Exclusion • exclusionary biases • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • France • Fraud • freedom of speech • French nationality law • Good Governance • Governance • Government • graphe paranomon • Great National Debate • human organization • Ian Shapiro • Iceland • Icelandic constitutional process • Ideology • illiberal democracy • illiberalism • impiety • Individual and group rights • inductive political theory • Infrastructure • Institution • Irrationality • James Fishkin • Joshua Cohen (philosopher) • Josiah Ober • just-so story • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Legitimacy • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • Liberalism • liquid representation • Lisa Disch • lobbying • lottocratic representation • Majoritarianism • majority rule • Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens • mass society • metic • Michael Saward • Michel Balinski • Microstate • month • narrative • Nathan Heller • Nationalization • nation state • New Laws • oligarchic biases • Oligarchy • Online Direct Democracy • OpenDemocracy • open government • open mini-public • openness • Oxford University Press • participant • participation rights • Participatory Budgeting • Participatory Democracy • Partisan (political) • political agenda • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Polity • polyarchy • Popular referendum • popular sovereignty • Populism • Post-democracy • Power structure • Precedent • Prerogative • Proof of Concept • Provision (contracting) • Public Participation • Public Policy • Public sphere • Puritans • random selection • Referendum • Referendums • Reformism • Regime • Regulation • Regulatory Agency • Representation • representative assembly • Representative Democracy • Representativeness • Republicanism • rights • Rousseau • Rule of Law • Ruler • self-appointment • Self-Interest • self-selected representation • Separation of Powers • Social Group • Social Movement • Sortition • Sovereignty • State of nature • Subsidiarity • substantive equality • Suffrage • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Supranational union • Technology • Territorial state • Tertiary education • The Crisis of Democracy • The New Yorker • The Political Process • The Representative Claim • Three generations of human rights • Town Hall Meeting • Trade-off • Transparency • Tribune of the Plebs • Triumphalism • Types of democracy • Tyranny of The Majority • Uncertainty • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change • Universal Suffrage • Venice Commission • Veto • Vikings • vote delegation • Voting • Writing • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20872-7 / 0691208727
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20872-5 / 9780691208725