Democracy: How Direct?: Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era

by Herman Belz and James S. Fishkin

Book Overview

For more than two hundred years Americans have been debating how direct a democracy they want. Many hold that representative government too seldom reflects the people's real views, while others counter that direct popular voting will lead to excesses of passion and deficits of deliberation. In Democracy: How Direct? Elliot Abrams brings together eminent scholars to discuss the issues surrounding the dilemma of a representative versus direct democracy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742523195
• ISBN13: 9780742523197
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"