Democracy Before, In, and After Schumpeter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Pettit (0000-0002-0355-3896, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 492-504 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913811.2017.1378401 |
| OpenAlex | W2766381588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
The classical model of democracy that Schumpeter criticizes is manufactured \nout of a variety of earlier ideas, not those of any one thinker or even one \nschool of thought. His critique of the central ideals by which he defines the model \n—those of the common will and the common good—remains persuasive. \nPeople’s preferences are too messy and too manipulable to allow us to think that \nmass democracy can promote those ideals, as he defines them. Should we endorse \nhis purely electoral model of democracy, then, and accept that people do not exercise \nany control over government? Not necessarily. We can expand democracy to include \nthe constitutional and contestatory constraints that people impose on their rulers. We \nmay hope that people can rely on such democratic controls to ensure that government operates by community standards
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |