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020 _a9780511975325 (ebook)
020 _z9780521823906 (hardback)
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050 0 0 _aJC143.M4
_bM34 2011
082 0 0 _a321.8
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100 1 _aMcCormick, John P.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMachiavellian Democracy / [electronic resource]
_cJohn P. McCormick.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (266 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _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.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521823906
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975325
_zCambridge Books Online
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