Vital Democracy: A Theory of Democracy in Action

by Frank Hendriks

Vital Democracy outlines a theory of democracy in action, based on four elementary forms of democracy--pendulum, consensus, voter and participatory democracy--that are thoroughly analyzed, compared and related to both the literature and the real world of democracy. Just like a few primary colors produce an array of shades, a few basic models of democracy appear, the author argues, to constitute a wide range of democratic variants in real life.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019957278X
• ISBN13: 9780199572786
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"