ISBN : 9780691242798
Author : Richard Tuck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Year : 2024
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : A powerful case for why majority rule―not representation―is the defining feature of democratic politics The idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little part in current theories of democracy, which instead stress the importance of representation by elected, appointed, or randomly selected bodies such as legislatures, courts, and juries. This would have astonished eighteenth-century theorists of democracy,