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Democracy defended /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Democracy defended // Gerry Mackie.
Author:	Mackie, Gerry,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 483 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Democracy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490293
ISBN:	9780511490293 (ebook)

Democracy defended /
Mackie, Gerry,

Democracy defended /Gerry Mackie. - 1 online resource (xvi, 483 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Contemporary political theory. - Contemporary political theory..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

A long, dark shadow over democratic politics --1.

Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In this powerful book, Gerry Mackie confronts and subdues these long-standing doubts about democratic governance. Problems of cycling, agenda control, strategic voting, and dimensional manipulation are not sufficiently harmful, frequent, or irremediable, he argues, to be of normative concern. Mackie also examines every serious empirical illustration of cycling and instability, including Riker's famous argument that the US Civil War was due to arbitrary dimensional manipulation. Almost every empirical claim is erroneous, and none is normatively troubling, Mackie says. This spirited defence of democratic institutions should prove both provocative and influential.

ISBN: 9780511490293 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Democracy.

LC Class. No.: JC423 / .M1583 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8

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