02213nam a22003138a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002400224082001400248100003300262245007200295264005200367300005900419336002600478337002600504338003600530500007300566520113500639776003501774856007101809999001901880CR9780511975325UkCbUP20180107143414.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||101011s2011||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511975325 (ebook)  z9780521823906 (hardback)  z9780521530903 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aJC143.M4 bM34 201100a321.82221 aMcCormick, John P.,eauthor.10aMachiavellian Democracy / [electronic resource]cJohn P. McCormick. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2011.  a1 online resource (266 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aIntensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. Mounting evidence suggests that economic power, not popular will, determines public policy, and that elections consistently fail to keep public officials accountable to the people. McCormick confronts this dire situation through a dramatic reinterpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought. Highlighting previously neglected democratic strains in Machiavelli's major writings, McCormick excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates, and he imagines how such institutions might be revived today. It reassesses one of the central figures in the Western political canon and decisively intervenes into current debates over institutional design and democratic reform. McCormick proposes a citizen body that excludes socioeconomic and political elites and grants randomly selected common people significant veto, legislative and censure authority within government and over public officials.08iPrint version: z978052182390640uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975325zCambridge Books Online  c236626d236626