Joseph Schumpeter's Two Theories of Democracy

by John Medearis

This book offers the first full-length treatment of Joseph Schumpeter's political thought. Schumpeter's theory of democracy as a competition among elites has influenced several generations of political scientists, but this book is the first to show that Schumpeter also conceived of democracy as a powerful transformative tendency leading toward the establishment of democratic socialism. Deploring this prospect, he theorized elite-dominated forms of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674186419
• ISBN13: 9780674186415
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"