Democratic elitism and western political thought (2009)

Higley, John

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%T Democratic elitism and western political thought (2009)
%A Higley, John
%J Historical Social Research
%N 1
%P 351-366
%V 37
%D 2012
%@ 0172-6404
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%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-372767
%X "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)
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%G en
%9 Zeitschriftenartikel
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