According to enlightened and popular belief, democracy is the most perfect and virtuous regime that human beings ever devised. This book seeks to evaluate democracy as one of many technologies for exe
This volume re-publishes classical studies by Hans Daalder (1928) on three major themes: the different paths towards state formation in Europe; their effect on parties and party systems and their alle
Philippe Van Parijs is one of the world's leading political philosophers. In this book, he argues that the purpose of democracy should be to promote justice - we need not just democracy (in the sense
