Democracy as the Political Empowerment of the

This book, along with its companion volume, Democracy as the Political Empowerment of the Citizen, relates the democratic potential of the latest electronic technologies to the idea of direct-participatory democracy. Taking a critical look at the past and present theories of democracy, this volume clarifies the original meaning of the idea of democracy and explains the distortions it has suffered throughout its long history.

Majid Behrouzi is Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at Cuyahoga Community College, Metropolitan Campus, Ohio.

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

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Part I The Idea of Democracy in Pre-Liberal and Non-Liberal Societies

1 The "Original" Idea of Democracy

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2 Macpherson and the Idea of Democracy as a "Class Affair"

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3 Rousseau and the Idea of the Sovereignty of the "General Will"

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4 The "Mandan Idea of Democracy": The Ideal and the Real

47

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5 Bolshevism and the Idea of "Proletarian Democracy"

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Concluding Remarks to Part I

67

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Part II The Case of the Liberal State and Liberal Democracy

6 Liberalism and the Rise of the Liberal State

75

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7 The Liberal State and the Idea of Representative Government

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8 The Rise of the Liberal-Democratic State

101

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9 Schumpeter and the Liberal-Democratic Conception of Democracy

119

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10 Justifying Representative Government

137

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Concluding Remarks to Part II

145

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Part III The Case of the Late Liberal Democracy

11 The Late Liberal-Democratic State: Crisis of Representative Democracy

149

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12 Theories of Participatory Democracy

165

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13 Theories of Deliberative Democracy

175

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Concluding Remarks to Part III

191

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Conclusion

195

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Selected Bibliography

199

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Index

217

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About the Author

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