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The Democratic Enigma

Author
Philip Pettit
Corporate Author
Philosophiques
ISBN
ISSN 1492-1391 (numรฉrique)
Collation
p. 351-368
Resource Language
French
Year of publication
2014
Topic
Civic / Citizenship / DemocracyGlobalisation and social justice / International understanding
Resource Type
Research papers / journal articles
Level of education
Higher education
Region
Europe and North America
Place of publication
Quรฉbec

Democracy means popular control, by almost all accounts. And by almost all accounts democracy entails legitimacy. But popular control, at least as that is understood in many discussions, does not entail legitimacy. So something has got to give. Democratic theories divide on what this is, so that the question prompts a taxonomy of approaches. The most appealing answer, so the paper suggests, involves a reinterpretation of the notion of popular control.

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