Hindess, Barry
Deficit by design - Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, March 2002
This paper focuses on the distinguishing concern of the discourse of democratic norms and institutional practice. I argue in this paper that the problem of democratic deficit is in fact the normal condition of the institutions of representative government. Indeed, early arguments in favour of representative government insist that it departs from and is superior to democracy itself. If representative government provides the predominant modern understanding of democracy, then democratic deficit is an integral part of its design
Deficit by design - Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, March 2002
This paper focuses on the distinguishing concern of the discourse of democratic norms and institutional practice. I argue in this paper that the problem of democratic deficit is in fact the normal condition of the institutions of representative government. Indeed, early arguments in favour of representative government insist that it departs from and is superior to democracy itself. If representative government provides the predominant modern understanding of democracy, then democratic deficit is an integral part of its design
