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Diploma Democracy : The Rise of Political Meritocracy by Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is Diploma Democracy : The Rise of Political Meritocracy about?
Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies - ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualifications currently make up about 70 percent of the electorates, yet they have become virtually absent from almost al
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192507907
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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