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Leading thinkers about Democracy - representative, deliberative and direct
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
The arrangements we call ‘representative democracy’ have become a substitute for popular self-government, not its enactment. Calling them ‘democracy’ only adds insult to injury.
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Hannah Arendt
Representative government has in fact become oligarchic government... the age-old distinction between ruler and ruled which the [American and French] Revolution[s] had set out to abolish through the establishment of a republic has asserted itself again; once more, the people are not admitted to the public realm, once more the business of government has become the privilege of the few
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