01724cam a2200265 a 450000100060000000300080000600500170001400800410003102000250007202000260009704000370012308200160016010000200017624500660019626000640026230000250032636500150035149000340036650400510040052007840045165000500123594200120128599900170129795201440131446683BD-DhUL20160425161851.0960429s1997    enk      b    001 0 eng    a0521452589qhardback  a0521458919qpaperback  aDLCbengcDLCdDLCdTOCdBD-DhUL00a324.63bMAP1 aManin, Bernard.14aThe principles of representative government /cBernard Manin.  aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c1997.  aix, 243 p. ;c24 cm.  aUSDb23.30  aThemes in the social sciences  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aBernard 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. 0aRepresentative government and representation.  2ddccBK  c58184d58184  00102ddc406324_630000000000000_MAP708NFIC997728aDULbDULcGENd2002-01-30ePurchasedo324.63 MAPp395562r2016-04-25w2016-04-25yBK