Democracy Defended

by Gerry Mackie

Book Overview

Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In this powerful book, Gerry Mackie confronts and subdues these long-standing doubts about democratic governance. Problems of cycling, agenda control, strategic voting,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521534313
• ISBN13: 9780521534314
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 8.9"