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The New Challenge of Direct Democracy: The New Market Socialism Paperback - 1996 - 1st Edition

by Ian Budge

Direct democracy involves citizens in discussion and decisions about what the government is to do, rather than leaving these decisions to officials.This book confronts arguments for and against mass debate in light of new communication developments which make Direct Democracy technically feasible in a mass society.


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Direct democracy involves citizens in discussion and decisions about what the government is to do, rather than leaving this to officials or parliaments. It thus challenges the restrictions placed by representative democracies such as Britain and the United States on political consultation and popular participation. Why should responsible adults not take public decisions as well as making their own individual choices? One affects them just as much as the other.


Can ordinary citizens make good public policy though? Many lack education and expertise and may not even be interested in politics. Even without these individual defects, mass debate may by its very nature lead to arbitrary or downright bad decisions. This book confronts these arguments in light of new communication developments which for the first time make direct democracy technically feasible in a mass society. The result is a highly original and innovative account of the possibility of the direct involvement of citizens in the governance of their own affairs.

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  • Title The New Challenge of Direct Democracy: The New Market Socialism
  • Author Ian Budge
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1996-12-09
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780745617657 / 0745617654
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.09 x 6.03 x 0.72 in (23.09 x 15.32 x 1.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Political parties, Political participation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96028104
  • Dewey Decimal Code 321.8

About the author

Ian Budge is a political scientist who has pioneered the use of quantitative methods in studying party democracy across countries.

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