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American Politics
Author_Filimon Peonidis
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Democratic Theory
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Popular Sovereignty
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- ISBN 9781498515375
- Weight: 191g
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Although democracy is in principle associated with popular rule, in practice it is best described as rule by elected elites. This form of government is not only wanting from a theoretical point of view, but it also no longer seems to meet the expectations of large segments of the citizenry. This book offers a blueprint for an alternative democratic model, democracy as popular sovereignty. Starting with the idea that the people, generously defined, are sovereign when they rule as equally valuable and fully participating members of a self-governing collectivity, this model tries to describe the constitutional and institutional arrangements necessary to achieve a workable version of this idea in advanced democratic states. This implies among other changes a greater dose of direct democracy, the use of sortition and a different conception of representation. The overall argument developed combines insights, facts, and findings from normative political theory, empirical political science, democracy’s long history as well as from the recent burgeoning literature on participatory and deliberative democracy.
Filimon Peonidis is associate professor of moral and political philosophy and head of the graduate philosophy program at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications in English include Autonomy and Sympathy: A Post-Kantian Moral Image (2005), (co-edited with Nicos Avgelis) Aristotle on Language, Logic and Science (1999) and articles in journals such as Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of Bentham Studies, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Value Inquiry and Law and Philosophy.
