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In this accessible text, leading scholars Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore ask, what good is democracy and is there any better alternative? Brennan argues that democracy suffers from built-in systematic flaws. There is no way to fix these flaws - we can only contain them, or jettison democracy for a better system of representative government. Landemore argues that our problem is that we have not been using real democracy.
Cover -- Series -- Debating Democracy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: How to Fix What Ails Democracy? -- Part 1 -- 1. How Real Democracy Really Works -- 2. Is the Solution More Democracy? -- 3. Democracy: Maybe Less Is More -- 4. Alternatives to Democracy -- References -- Part 2 -- Introduction -- 5. The Argument for Democracy -- 6. Objections -- 7. Against Epistocracies -- 8. If Democracy Is Such a Smart Regime, Why Are Democracies Doing So Poorly at the Moment and How Can We Fix Them? -- Reference -- Part 3 -- 9. Brennan: Response to Landemore -- 10. Landemore: Response to Brennan -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.