Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century

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Author : Hélène Landemore
Genre : Philosophy

Summary : 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 democ

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Author : Hélène Landemore
Genre : Philosophy

Summary : Presents a new paradigm of democracy in which power is genuinely accessible to ordinary citizens in order to strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies

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Author : Hélène Landemore
Genre : Philosophy

Summary : "Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."—Nathan Heller, New Yorker How 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, democrac

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Author : Hélène Landemore
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add

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Author : Kevin O'Leary
Genre : Political Science

Summary : Saving Democracy presents a bold yet practical plan for reinventing American democracy for the twenty-first century. The book diagnoses contemporary political ills as symptoms of corruption in our large republic and develops a new understanding of representative democracy. Building on the ideas of J

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Author : Bernard Manin
Genre : Political Science

Summary : The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of governmen

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Author : David Van Reybrouck
Genre : Political Science

Summary : A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change. "Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck, regarded today as one of Europe's most astute thinkers. "If you look at the decline in voter t