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100	1		_aManin, Bernard.
245	1	4	_aThe principles of representative government / _cBernard Manin.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c1997.
300			_aix, 243 p. ; _c24 cm.
365			_aUSD _b23.30
490			_aThemes in the social sciences
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aBernard Manin's challenging book defines the key features of modern democratic institutions. For us representative government has come to seem inseparable from democracy. But its modern history begins, as Professor Manin shows, as a consciously chosen alternative to popular self-rule. In the debates which led up to the new constitution of the United States, for the first time, a new form of republic was imagined and elaborated, in deliberate contrast to the experiences of ancient republics from Athens to Renaissance Italy. The balance between aristocratic and democratic components within this novel state form was not, as has been widely supposed, a consequence of a deliberate mystification of its real workings; it was a rationally planned aspect of its basic structure.
650		0	_aRepresentative government and representation.
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