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.
ALBERT WEALE is Professor of Government, University of Essex, UK
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Preface to the Second EditionThe Theoretical Challenge of DemocracyForms of Democratic GovernmentThe Justification of DemocracyDeliberation , Consensus and Political EqualityParticipation as Democracy, Participation in DemocracyFrom Conceptions of Representation to Systems of RepresentationAggregation, Unanimity and Majority RuleDemocracy, Rights and Constitutionalism?The Boundaries of InclusionInternational Relations and Democratic IdealsEpilogue: The Democratic Reform of Democracy.