This wide-ranging text identifies and assesses the main conceptions of democracy from participationist to elitist. It proceeds to consider in detail a range of key issues in democratic theory in relation to which these conceptions can be distinguished.
A substantially revised and expanded new edition of a highly regarded text by a leading political theorist
Provides and up to date overview for students of a key topic in political theory as well as making its own original contribution to the debate
Albert Weale
Deliberation Nation democracy participation political theory