Good Government: Democracy Beyond Elections

by Pierre Rosanvallon and Malcolm DeBevoise

Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures that only the affluent have voice in legislation. Europeans, meanwhile, increasingly see the European Union as an anti-democratic body whose "diktats"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674979435
• ISBN13: 9780674979437
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"