01568cam a2200253 a 4500 46683 BD-DhUL 20160425161851.0 960429s1997 enk b 001 0 eng 0521452589 hardback 0521458919 paperback DLC eng DLC DLC TOC BD-DhUL 324.63 MAP Manin, Bernard. The principles of representative government / Bernard Manin. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. ix, 243 p. ; 24 cm. USD 23.30 Themes in the social sciences Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Representative government and representation. ddc BK 58184 58184 0 0 ddc 0 324_630000000000000_MAP 0 NFIC 97728 DUL DUL GEN 2002-01-30 Purchased 324.63 MAP 395562 2016-04-25 2016-04-25 BK