Against Elections
The Case for Democracy
by David van Reybrouck
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appears in Democracy, Politics, and Philosophy.
Democracy is in bad health. The symptoms are familiar: the rise of fearmongering populists, widespread distrust in the establishment, personality contests and pointscoring in place of reasoned debate, slogans instead of expertise. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis ? and an ancient remedy. In this ingenious book, David Van Reybrouck reminds...
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