Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy
Subtitle: Lessons from Brazil
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403963062
Subjects: Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Elite (Social sciences); Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Brazil; Political Process - General; Latin America - South America; Political Science / Democracy; Democracy; General; Political participation
First sentence: North Americans at the beginning of the twenty-first century have what can only be called a schizophrenic love-hate relationship with their democratic political system.