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"The idea that democracy rests ultimately on majority voting plays remarkably little part in most current theories of democracy. Instead, modern theories stress the importance of deliberation; of bodies of rights which constrain democratic legislation; or of sortition rather than election as a means of choosing delegates to an assembly. Even when majority voting is defended, as it is by the so-called epistemic democrats, it is only as a means to an end rather than an end in and of itself. This w
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- Author
- Richard Tuck, Stephen Macedo (editor)
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691242811
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Science, Political Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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