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@article{ Higley2012,
 title = {Democratic elitism and western political thought (2009)},
 author = {Higley, John},
 journal = {Historical Social Research},
 number = {1},
 pages = {351-366},
 volume = {37},
 year = {2012},
 issn = {0172-6404},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.37.2012.1.351-366},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-372767},
 abstract = {"Many political thinkers have viewed democratic elitism as closing a democratic road they believe is or should be open-ended. Their view of democratic possibilities reflects the auspicious circumstances of Western societies during the past several centuries and especially since World War II. However, it involves a conflation of liberal and democratic values. I examine why and how this has occurred, and I argue that liberal and democratic values must be more clearly separated in today's dangerous world. In step with Schumpeter, democracy must be regarded as a method or instrumental value that in some but by no means all circumstances promotes the ultimate liberal value of actively individualistic free people." (author's abstract)},
 keywords = {Elite; elite; Eliteforschung; elite research; Demokratie; democracy; westliche Welt; Western world; Demokratieverständnis; conception of democracy; Politik; politics; Liberalismus; liberalism; Wertorientierung; value-orientation; 20. Jahrhundert; twentieth century; Nachkriegsgesellschaft; post-war society; Weltordnung; world order; soziales Milieu; social milieu; Freiheit; freedom; freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung; free democratic basic order; Individuum; individual; Schumpeter, J.; Schumpeter, J.}}