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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. "
The Democratisation Process in Zanzibar: A Retarded Transition - Page 44
by Mohammed Ali Bakari - 2001 - 360 pages
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The Concept of Representation

Hanna F. Pitkin - Philosophy - 1967 - 340 pages
...representatives are competitively trying to sell themselves to the buyers. Schumpeter defines democracy as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote." Op. cit., p. 269. Issues thus are not decided by the...
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The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism & the Problem of Value

Edward A. Purcell, Jr. - Political Science - 1973 - 348 pages
...and ability necessary to engage in politics. "The democratic method," declared Joseph A. Schumpeter, "is that institutional arrangement for arriving at...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote."52 Democracy was an institutionalized conflict between...
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Participation and Democratic Theory

Carole Pateman - Philosophy - 1970 - 134 pages
...Thus, Schumpeter offered the following as a modern, realistic definition of the democratic method: "That institutional arrangement for arriving at political...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote' (p. 269). On this definition it is the competition for...
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Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the ...

Benjamin Leontief Alpers - History - 2003 - 422 pages
...as hopelessly vague, he instead offered a characteri2ation of democracy based completely on process: "The democratic method is that institutional arrangement...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote." In this sense, he concluded, socialism and democracy...
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Understanding Democratic Politics: An Introduction

Roland Axtmann - Political Science - 2003 - 356 pages
...an intermediate body which in turn will produce a national executive or government. And we define: the democratic method is that institutional arrangement...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote. (Schumpeter, 1976/1942: 269) Democracy is thus an arrangement...
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Verhandlungsdemokratie: Beiträge zur vergleichenden Regierungslehre

Gerhard Lehmbruch - Political Science - 2013 - 228 pages
...seines Buches „Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" (1943, 269-302) auf die Formulierung zugespitzt: „The democratic method is that institutional arrangement...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote". Dieses Arrangement sah er in klassischer Weise in England...
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Fragments of Democracy: Nationalism, Development and the State in Africa

Gavin Williams - History - 2003 - 68 pages
...democracy cannot, for this reason, be avoided by adopting Schumpeter's minimal description of democracy as 'that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote'(1943: 269). Because the concept of democracy does not...
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Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure

Alan Keenan - Political Science - 2003 - 260 pages
...Press, 1987), esp. the final chapter. 11. Schumpeter's minimalist conception of democracy — defined as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote" — is found in Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism,...
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Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence

Yi Feng - Business & Economics - 2003 - 408 pages
...Western democracy? Schumpeter emphasizes the procedural aspects of democracy, defining democracy as "that institutional arrangement for arriving at political...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a comprehensive struggle for the people's votes" (Schumpeter 1976, 269). In Schumpeter's procedural...
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Democracy in Modern France

Nick Hewlett - Political Science - 2005 - 236 pages
...democratic politics is about selecting a powerful political elite and that the 'democratic method' is the 'institutional arrangement for arriving at political...individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote' (Schumpeter, 1943, p. 269). By the same token, Non-democratic...
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