Representative Democracy

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  Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century

  By Ballard C. Campbell

  The rise of an immensely powerful federal government in the twentieth century has tended to obscure the importance of state and local government in American history. Yet government at these...

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  Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century

  By Ballard C. Campbell

  Through an analysis of late-nineteenth-century state legislatures in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, Ballard Campbell has written what one expert has called "the best book on legislative politics, past or present.

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  Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy

  By Nadia Urbinati

  But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to ...

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  Representative Democracy: Legislators and Their Constituents

  By Michael L. Mezey

  Although we tend to use the terms 'representative democracy' and 'democracy' as synonyms, they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them.

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  Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy

  By Nadia Urbinati

  But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to ...

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  Representative Democracy: Legislators and their Constituents

  By Michael L. Mezey

  Although we tend to use the terms 'representative democracy' and 'democracy' as synonyms, Michael Mezey maintains that they are not.

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  Representative Democracy: Legislators and Their Constituents

  By Michael L. Mezey

  Although we tend to use the terms "representative democracy" and "democracy" as synonyms, they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them.

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  Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy

  By Nadia Urbinati

  But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to ...