Participatory Democracy Revisited
@article{Pateman2012ParticipatoryDR, title={Participatory Democracy Revisited}, author={Carole Pateman}, journal={Perspectives on Politics}, year={2012}, volume={10}, pages={7 - 19} }
Over the past two decades we have heard an historically unprecedented volume of talk about and praise of democracy, and many governmental, non-governmental, and international organizations have been engaged in democracy promotion. Democracy is a subject that crosses the boundaries in political science, and within my own field of political theory there has been a major revival of democratic theory. In political theory, argument about “democracy” is usually now qualified by one of an array of…
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