 | Vincent Joseph Samar, Vincent Samar - 1992 - 274 pages
...alternative theory of democracy, he says: "The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of the competitive struggle for the people's vote" (p. 269). 11. Alan Gewirth, Political Philosophy (New... | |
 | Jean L. Cohen, Andrew Arato - 1994 - 804 pages
...normativists in 1942.6 Schumpeter 's claim that "the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide via a competitive struggle for the people's vote"7 has formed the core of the elite model of democracy... | |
 | Anthony Arblaster - 1994 - 142 pages
...much quoted definition of what he termed 'the democratic method': . . . that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...decide by means of a competitive struggle for the peole's vote. (p. 269) Some of those who followed in Schumpeter's footsteps in the 1950s went even... | |
 | Ray C. Rist - 1994 - 628 pages
...democracy into a procedure. "The democratic method," he advised, "is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a compe itive struggle for the people's vote."5 Though praisin * this procedural approach, which leads... | |
 | Thomas W. Simon - 1995 - 366 pages
...leaders. He offered the following definition: "The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of competitive struggle for the people's vote."21 Leaders, and not citizens, formally debate issues and... | |
 | R. A. de Moor - 1995 - 336 pages
...regimes everywhere. However, real democracy ('the democratic method') is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to make decisions by means of a competitive struggle for people's votes (Schumpeter, 1962). lines of Max... | |
 | Roger B. Porter, Pierre Sauvé, Arvind Subramanian, Americo Beviglia Zampetti - 2004 - 470 pages
...majority. "The democratic method," declared Joseph Schumpeter in 1942, "is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive structure for the people's vote."40 International institutions lack the essential feature that makes... | |
 | Mohammed Ali Bakari - 2001 - 376 pages
...restrictive conception suggested by Schumpeter that "the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of competitive struggle for people's vote." See J. Schumpeter 1942; reprint!976: Capitalism, Socialism,... | |
 | Paulo José Krischke - 2001 - 210 pages
...advanced by Joseph Schumpeter (1942: 269) — as 'the democratic method (or) institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide via a competitive struggle for the people's vote' — has formed the core of the elite model of democracy... | |
 | Azzam S. Tamimi - 2001 - 281 pages
...democracy has been Joseph Schumpeter's claim that "the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide via a competitive struggle for the people's vote." 63 Accordingly, democracy is defined not as a kind... | |
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Schumpeter (1950, p. 269) defined democracy in terms of electoral competition: "the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle... 
