Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century / Hélène Landemore.

"To the Ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in a public space and arguing based on an agenda set by a randomly selected assembly of 500 other citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings in Northern Europe a few centuries later, it meant gathering every summer in a large field, a place where they held t...

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Main Author: Landemore, Hélène, 1976- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Physical Description:xviii, 243 pages ; 25 cm
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505 0 |a The crisis of representative democracy -- The myth of direct democracy -- Legitimacy and representation beyond elections (part one) -- Legitimacy and representation beyond elections (part two) -- The principles of open democracy -- Let the people in! Lessons from a modern Viking saga -- On the viability of open democracy -- Conclusion: Open democracy in a global world. 
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