Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century / Hélène Landemore.

To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democ...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via University Press Scholarship Online)
Main Author:	Landemore, Hélène, 1976- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Series:	Princeton scholarship online.
Subjects:	Deliberative democracy. Representative government and representation. Political participation.