Diarchy and elections: a discussion of Urbinati's Democracy Disfigured

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  • Breno Franco Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

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Urbinati. Democracia. Eleições. Diarquia. Landemore. Brennan.

Resumo

In this article, I intend to present some difficulties to Urbinati's account of democracy in her 2014 book Democracy Disfigured. In the first section, I'll present a brief sketch of Urbinati's paradigm of democracy as a diarchy of will and opinion. In the second and final section, I’ll raise two objections to Urbinati's views: first, that diarchy doesn't pertain to electoral democracy in any special or exclusive way, so that the diarchic paradigm has no internal commitment to it; and second, that the diarchic paradigm actually favors non-electoral forms of democracy over electoral democracy.

Biografia do Autor

Breno Franco, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Mestrando em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Referências

BRENNAN, Jason. Against Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

BRENNAN, Jason; LANDEMORE, Hélène. Debating Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

KAHNEMAN, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

LANDEMORE, Hélène. Open Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

MANIN, Bernard. The Principles of Representative Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

URBINATI, Nadia. Democracy Disfigured. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

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2023-11-29

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