Joseph Schumpeter's Two Theories of Democracy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: July 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780674004801
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Political Science; Elite (Social sciences); Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Schumpeter, Joseph Alois,; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / General; Democracy; 1883-1950; Contributions in political sci
Description: "This book offers the first full-length treatment of Joseph Schumpeter's political thought. Schumpeter's theory of democracy as a competition among elites has influenced several generations of political scientists, but this book is the first to show that Schumpeter also conceived of democracy as a powerful transformative tendency leading toward the establishment of democratic socialism.

Deploring this prospect, he theorized elite-dominated forms of society in which democratic change could be reined in."--BOOK JACKET.