Democracy : government of the people or government of the politicians? / José Nun ; translated by David Haskel and Guillermo Haskel.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nun, José
Other title:Democracia. English
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003.
Series:Critical currents in Latin American perspective.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Family resemblances
  • Athens and Sparta
  • Schumpeter and the politicians
  • The pluralist theories
  • The declaration of 1948
  • Capitalism and democracy: a first approach
  • The Keynesian alchemy
  • Marshall and the citizens
  • From Schumpeter to Marshall
  • The experience in the developed capitalist countries
  • European transitions to democracy
  • West Capitalism and democracy: a second approach
  • Legitimacy, moral autonomy, and preferences
  • From the thirty glorious years to the great recession
  • Welfare states in transition
  • The problematic of social exclusion
  • The Latin American case
  • An unhappy balance
  • An idea and its concrete manifestations
  • Conditional democracy
  • Deceiving resemblances.