The principles of representative government
by Bernard Manin
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Bernard Manin's challenging book defines the key features of modern democratic institutions. For us representative government has come to seem inseparable from democracy. But its modern history begins, as Professor Manin shows, as a consciously chosen alternative to popular self-rule.
In the debates which led up to the new constitution of the United States, for the first time, a new form of republic was imagined and elaborated, in deliberate contrast to the experiences of ancient republics from Athens to Renaissance Italy. The balance between aristocratic and democratic components within this novel state form was not, as has been widely supposed, a consequence of a deliberate mystification of its real workings; it was a rationally planned aspect of its basic structure.
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Principles of Representative Government
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Principles of Representative Government
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Principles of Representative Government
1997, Cambridge University Press
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1997, Cambridge University Press
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