 | 2005 - 464 pages
...Schumpeter advanced what he labeled "another theory of democracy." The "democratic method," he said, "is that institutional arrangement for arriving at...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."4 For some while after World War II a debate went on between those determined, in the classical... | |
 | Tom Campbell - 2004 - 360 pages
...controlled by the people's representatives. Explicitly adopting Schumpeter's definition of democracy as 'that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote' in opposition to Dicey's model of representation and sovereignty,23 he calls for a 'more realistic... | |
 | Carlo Binetti, Fernando Carrillo Flórez - 2005 - 179 pages
...democracy that we could label "electoral democracy," derived from Shumpeter's definition of democracy as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote." Although this minimalist approach offers interesting measurement advantages, it ignores the... | |
 | Robert B. Talisse - 2005 - 182 pages
..."elitist" conception of democracy. According to the elitist view, "we define the democratic method as that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote" (Schumpeter 1950, 83). See also Lippmann 1922, and more recently Posnor 2003. 6. The following... | |
 | Leonardo A. VillalÃ3n, Peter VonDoepp - 2005 - 342 pages
..."full democracy."2 A limited democracy is one that closely resembles Schumpeters famed description: "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote" (Schumpeter 1950, 250). This son of institutional process creates a competition primarily among... | |
 | Stephen Parsons - 2005 - 204 pages
...by Schumpeter, who was, perhaps not coincidently, primarily an economist. According to Schumpeter, 'the democratic method is that institutional arrangement...decisions in which individuals acquire the power to govern by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote' (Schumpeter, 1976: 269). Hence for... | |
 | Majid Behrouzi - 2005 - 246 pages
...intermediate body which in turn will produce a government [the primary role of the people]. And we define: the democratic method is that institutional arrangement...arriving at political decisions in which individuals [the future representatives] acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the... | |
 | Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, Professor Department of Government Paul Pierson - 2005 - 282 pages
...with the esteemed economist Joseph Schumpeter that the essence of democracy is that political leaders "acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."25 To be sure, this competitive vision of democracy is incomplete; basic political rights are... | |
 | Walter F. Murphy - 2007 - 588 pages
...and Democracy, 3rd ed. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950), chs. 21-22, esp. p. 269, where he says, "[T]he democratic method is that institutional arrangement...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote." Rights to free discussion and association: ibid., esp. p. 272. each, and an opportunity to choose... | |
 | Mark Mattern - 2006 - 486 pages
...democracy is only a method of choosing leaders. As Schumpeter, an early formulator of this model, put it, "The democratic method is that institutional arrangement...by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote." Professional politicians "acquire the power to decide," while the rest vote during infrequent... | |
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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. 
