 | Hanna F. Pitkin - 1967 - 340 pages
...representatives are competitively trying to sell themselves to the buyers. Schumpeter defines democracy as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote." Op. cit., p. 269. Issues thus are not decided by the voters; the voters merely choose the "men... | |
 | Edward A. Purcell, Jr. - 1973 - 348 pages
...and ability necessary to engage in politics. "The democratic method," declared Joseph A. Schumpeter, "is that institutional arrangement for arriving at...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."52 Democracy was an institutionalized conflict between elites for political power, rather than... | |
 | Sunil Bastian, Robin Luckham - 2003 - 356 pages
...mere method that could be discussed rationally like a steam engine or a disinfectant' ... [being an] 'institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote' (1965: 284, 269). In this view, political contestation is the very crux of democracy, being the... | |
 | Nick Hewlett - 2005 - 236 pages
...democratic politics is about selecting a powerful political elite and that the 'democratic method' is the 'institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote' (Schumpeter, 1943, p. 269). By the same token, Non-democratic Regimes (Brooker, 1999), for example,... | |
 | Christian Schafferer - 2003 - 218 pages
...this process emphasized. Democracy and Democratization Joseph Schumpeter defined democracy as a system "for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."1 Robert Dahl elaborated on Schumpeter's minimal definition in his Polvarchy: Participation and... | |
 | Donald R. Kelley - 2003 - 316 pages
...that offered by Joseph Schumpeter, who argues that the term democracy should be applied to any system "for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's votes."4 In the terms of the current discussion, democratization therefore has been consolidated when... | |
 | Yi Feng - 2003 - 408 pages
...Western democracy? Schumpeter emphasizes the procedural aspects of democracy, defining democracy as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a comprehensive struggle for the people's votes" (Schumpeter 1976, 269). In Schumpeter's procedural version,... | |
 | Philip Nel, Janis Van der Westhuizen - 2004 - 242 pages
...wherein democracy is regarded as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decision in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote" (Schumpeter, 1952:269). This approach, which reduces political participation to simply voting... | |
 | David Eugene Wilkins - 2003 - 320 pages
...Navajo Nation, in part because direct democracy proved impractical. According to Joseph Schumpeter, "the democratic method is that institutional arrangement...arriving at political decisions in which individuals (ie, leaders) acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."... | |
 | Kay Anderson - 2003 - 612 pages
...version, based on the Schumpeterian notion of the 'democratic method'. whereby individuals are supposed to acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote, eventually triumphed owing to the greater geopolitical power of the United States. The second,... | |
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And we define: 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 for the people's vote. 
