Against elections
Subtitle: the case for democracy
By: David Van Reybrouck ; introduction by Kofi Annan ; translated by Liz Waters
Contributors: Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta), author of introduction; Waters, Liz, translator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781609808105
Subjects: Philosophy; Elections; Democracy; History
Work titles: Tegen verkiezingen
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: The crisis of democracy / Kofi Annan; title: Enthusiasm and mistrust : the paradox of democracy; title: Crisis of legitimacy : support is crumbling; title: Crisis of efficiency : declining vigour; title: It's the fault of politicians : the diagnosis; title: Of populism; title: It's the fault of democracy : the diagnosis of the technocracy; title: It's the fault of representative democracy : the diagnosis of direct democracy /; title: It's the fault of electoral-representative democracy : a new diagnosis; title: A democratic procedure : drawing lots (antiquity and renaissance); title: An aristocratic procedure : elections (eighteenth century); title: The democratisation of elections : a bogus process (nineteenth and twentieth centuries); title: The revival of sortition : deliberative democracy (late twentieth century); title: Democratic innovation in practice : an international quest (2004/2013); title: Democratic innovation in the future : allotted assemblies; title: Blueprint for a democracy based on sortition; title: Timely appeal for a bi-representative system.