Deliberation, social choice and absolutist democracy /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
David van Mill.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge innovations in political theory ;
Volume Designation
22
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
Text of Note
Title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2009).
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction -- Overview of the chapters -- A comparison of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- Discourse and democracy -- Social choice theory -- Criticisms of deliberative democracy -- Criticisms of social choice theory -- Conclusion -- Circumventing Arrow's theorem -- Introduction -- What hope for democracy? -- Can deliberative democracy and social choice theory be made compatible? -- Abandoning democratic purity -- Limiting participation -- Conclusion -- An empirical test of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- A broad description of the institution -- Case studies : administration and governance of the west, and the location of the capital -- Conclusion -- Hobbesian sovereignty -- Introduction -- Hobbesian sovereignty -- Hobbes's intentions -- Success? -- Conclusion : Hobbesian absolutism revisited -- Democracy versus constitutionalism -- Introduction -- The fear of the majority -- Free speech -- Back to constitutions -- The British Constitution -- Conclusion : limits on parliamentary supremacy.
0
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Deliberation, social choice and absolutist democracy.
International Standard Book Number
0415390923
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Decision making.
Democracy.
Social choice.
Decision making.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.