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Debating Democracy - Jason Brennan, Hélène Landemore

Debating Democracy

Do We Need More or Less?
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-754081-7 (ISBN)
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Around the world, faith in democracy is falling. Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela have moved from flawed democracies to authoritarian regimes. Brexit and the rise of far-right parties show that even stable Western democracies are struggling. Partisanship and mutual distrust are increasing. What, if anything, should we do about these problems? In this accessible work, leading philosophers Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore debate whether the solution lies in having less democracy or more.

Brennan argues that democracy has systematic flaws, and that democracy does not and cannot work the way most of us commonly assume. He argues the best solution is to limit democracy's scope and to experiment with certain voting systems that can overcome democracy's problems.

Landemore argues that democracy, defined as a regime that distributes power equally and inclusively, is a better way to generate good governance than oligarchies of knowledge. To her, the crisis of "representative democracy" comes in large part from its glaring democratic deficits. The solution is not just more democracy, but a better kind, which Landemore theorizes as "open democracy."

Jason Brennan is the Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Ethics of Voting (Princeton University Press, 2012), Compulsory Voting: For and Against (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Against Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2016). His books have been translated twenty-four times into thirteen languages. He specializes in democratic theory and politics, philosophy, and economics. Hélène Landemore is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Princeton University Press, 2012), which won the Spitz Prize in 2015, and Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century Century (Princeton University Press, 2020). She researches democratic theory, constitutional theory, and political epistemology. She serves as an advisor to the French government on the use of citizen participation in policy-making.

Introduction

Part I: Brennan - Democracy without Romance
Chapter 1. How Real Democracy Really Works
Chapter 2. Is the Solution More Democracy?
Chapter 3. Democracy: Less Is More
Chapter 4. Alternatives to Democracy

Part II: Landemore - Let's Try Real Democracy
Chapter 5. The Argument for Democracy
Chapter 6. Objections
Chapter 7. Against Epistemocracies
Chapter 8. If Democracy Is Such a Smart Regime, Why Are Democracies Doing So Poorly at the Moment and How Can We Fix Them?

Part III: Responses by Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore
Chapter 9. A Response to Brennan
Chapter 10. A Response to Landemore

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Debating Ethics
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 147 mm
Gewicht 522 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-754081-3 / 0197540813
ISBN-13 978-0-19-754081-7 / 9780197540817
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