본문 바로가기 주메뉴 바로가기
국회도서관 홈으로 정보검색 소장정보 검색

목차보기

영문목차

Preface=ix

Acknowledgements=xi

1. Introduction=1

Three theoretical perspectives=3

Purpose and content of the book=6

2. Extremism=11

Conceptual problems=11

Othmar Spann and aristocratic conservatism=15

Fascism and National Socialism=17

Stalinism and Marxism-Leninism=19

Theocratic extremism=22

Murray Rothbard and libertarianism=25

Conclusion=28

3. Neathena : assembly democracy=32

Theory=34

Bookchin's libertarian municipalism=37

Practice=44

The power of the ekklèsia in Athens=44

The longevity of the Landsgemeinde in Switzerland=48

Town Meeting in New England=50

The Orçamento Participativo in Porto Alegre=52

Assembly democracy in political movements=54

Evaluation=56

4. Jacobinland : bounded-delegate democracy=61

Theory=63

Jacobins and sans-culottes : disciples of Rousseau?=63

Neo-Jacobins and other democratic radicals in the nineteenth century=71

The Paris Commune and Karl Marx=75

Soviet democracy and Lenin=78

Council-democracy and Pannekoek=81

The New Left, 'autogestion' and council-democracy=87

Populist democracy : Torbjörn Tännsjö and Heinz Dieterich=95

Practice=99

Populist democracy in Venezuela?=99

Plebiscitary democracy in Switzerland and the United States=101

Evaluation=108

5. Aleatoria : sortitionist democracy=114

Theory=117

Barbara Goodwin's House of Lots=117

John Burnheim's demarchy=118

Strong sortitionism : the citizen juries of Simon Threlkeld=124

Strong sortitionism : the Partido Azar=125

Sortitionism balanced with electoralism : Callenbach and Phillips=126

Sortitionism balanced with electoralism : Sutherland and the Kleroterians=129

Sortitionism subordinated to electoralism : Zakaras, O'Leary and Leib=132

Pros and cons of sortitionism=134

Practice=137

The Council and the courts in Athens=137

Sortition and the jury system=140

Opinion polls, citizen assemblies and juries=141

Evaluation=148

6. Conclusion : extremist theories and radical practices=154

References=165

Index=191

이용현황보기

Democratic extremism in theory and practice : all power to the people 이용현황 표 - 등록번호, 청구기호, 권별정보, 자료실, 이용여부로 구성 되어있습니다.
등록번호 청구기호 권별정보 자료실 이용여부
0002186635 321.8 -A16-23 서울관 서고(열람신청 후 1층 대출대) 이용가능

출판사 책소개

알라딘제공

Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere in their attempt to construct a more democratic polity. Hence, they can be called democrats and yet also extremists, in so far as they strive for a regime with characteristics that are more extreme in a significant sense.

This book analyses radical and extreme democratic theories and ideas in their historical context, interlocked with critical descriptions of historical institutions and experiments that help to evaluate the theories. Cases range from ancient Athens to recent experiments with citizen juries and citizen assemblies, from the time-honoured Swiss Landsgemeinde to contemporary (and controversial) workers’ councils in Venezuela and participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre. Among the theorists discussed here are familiar names as well as relatively unknown persons: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, Murray Bookchin and John Burnheim, William Godwin and Barbara Goodwin, Anton Pannekoek and Heinz Dieterich. Whereas the extreme ideas do not seem to work very well in practice, they do indicate ways by which we could make existing political systems more democratic.

This book will be of interest to students of Politics and Current Affairs, as well as inspiration to political activists and reformists.



This book analyses radical and extreme democratic theories and ideas in their historical context, interlocked with a critical description of historical institutions and experiments that help to evaluate the theories.