Defender la democracia

Adam Przeworski

doi:10.5294/dika.2024.33.1.6

Authors

Adam Przeworski Author New York University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1721-1627

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5294/dika.2024.33.1.6

Keywords:

Democracy, minimalism, maximalism, crisis of democracy, inequality, delegative populism, participatory populism, representative institutions, elections, majority decisions

Abstract

What is “democratic” depends on the values one attaches to democracy. The distinction that determines the answer is between minimalist and maximalist conceptions of democracy.

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