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The Principles of Representative Government (Themes in the Social Sciences) by Bernard Manin is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
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The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic elements. Challenging the conventionally held views on the subject, Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and democracy appear as virtually indistinguishable, when representative government was first established in Europe and America, it was designed in opposition to democracy proper. The author identifies the es
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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
- Bernard Manin
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521452588
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Science
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (83 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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