 | Hanna F. Pitkin - 1967 - 340 pages
...trying to sell themselves to the buyers. Schumpeter defines democracy as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...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
...politics. "The democratic method," declared Joseph A. Schumpeter, "is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."52 Democracy was an institutionalized conflict between elites for political power, rather than... | |
 | Carole Pateman - 1970 - 134 pages
...following as a modern, realistic definition of the democratic method: "That institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote' (p. 269). On this definition it is the competition for leadership that is the distinctive feature... | |
 | Robert J. Art - 2003 - 352 pages
...for defining democracy, instead arguing that "the democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote." 56. Ibid., pp. 26 and 294. That 45 percent of the states with populations greater than one million... | |
 | Nick Hewlett - 2005 - 236 pages
...selecting a powerful political elite and that the 'democratic method' is the 'institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...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,... | |
 | Gerhard Lehmbruch - 2013 - 228 pages
...269-302) auf die Formulierung zugespitzt: „The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote". Dieses Arrangement sah er in klassischer Weise in England realisiert, in den Institutionen der... | |
 | Sunil Bastian, Robin Luckham - 2003 - 356 pages
...discussed rationally like a steam engine or a disinfectant' ... [being an] 'institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...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... | |
 | Alan Keenan - 2003 - 260 pages
...11. Schumpeter's minimalist conception of democracy — defined as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote" — is found in Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (London: George Allen... | |
 | Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow - 2006 - 332 pages
...offered a minimalist definition of democracy: "The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote.' In this tradition, democracy is often analysed solely in terms of representative democracy.... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - 2009 - 428 pages
...determines which elite contestants prevail.48 "The democratic method is that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals...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,... | |
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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. 
