Le Roi-machine
Jan-Werner Müller: Beyond Elections, 19 March 2020
Good Government: Democracy beyond Elections
by Pierre Rosanvallon, translated by Malcolm DeBevoise.
Harvard, 338 pp., £32.95, March 2018,978 0 674 97943 7 Show More
by Pierre Rosanvallon, translated by Malcolm DeBevoise.
Harvard, 338 pp., £32.95, March 2018,
Notre Histoire intellectuelle et politique 1968-2018
by Pierre Rosanvallon.
Seuil, 448 pp., €22.50, August 2018,978 2 02 135125 5 Show More
by Pierre Rosanvallon.
Seuil, 448 pp., €22.50, August 2018,
“... Our regimes are democratic,’ Pierre Rosanvallon states in the opening sentence of Good Government, ‘but we are not governed democratically.’ There has in recent decades been a shift, he argues, away from a model of democracy focused on representative assemblies towards one in which executives are dominant. More and more countries are adopting the presidential style of government, even in places like Britain that nominally remain parliamentary democracies ... ”
