 | Hanna F. Pitkin - 1967 - 340 pages
...and would-be representatives are competitively trying to sell themselves to the buyers. Schumpeter defines democracy as "that institutional arrangement...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 who... | |
 | Edward A. Purcell, Jr. - 1973 - 348 pages
...ability necessary to engage in politics. "The democratic method," declared Joseph A. Schumpeter, "is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."52 Democracy was an institutionalized conflict between elites for political power, rather than... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - 2009 - 428 pages
...audience whose applause (votes) determines which elite contestants prevail.48 "The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."49 "Democracy is a method, rather than an ideal of political culture, in which certain individuals,... | |
 | 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...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 political... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | S.M. Amadae - 2003 - 414 pages
...democracy as a "competition in the economic sphere," and both understand that "the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for people's vote." 10 For Schumpeter, democracy is sustained by competing economic interests that no longer... | |
 | 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
...What, then, is Western democracy? Schumpeter emphasizes the procedural aspects of democracy, defining democracy as "that institutional arrangement for arriving...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 in periodic... | |
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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. 
