Representative Democracy and Its Limits

by Paul Q. Hirst

Representative democracy today is subject to intense debate. New forms of representation and new ways of organising the interaction between state and society are currently much discussed. In this new work, Paul Hirst assesses these debates and soberly offers a way through their problems and challenges. The book focuses on three related questions. The first is the inherent limits of representative democracy and possible ways of increasing the accountability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745606784
• ISBN13: 9780745606781
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.