Элен Ландемор (Unknown)
OPE N DE MOCR ACY
Open Democracy
Reinventing
Popu lar Rule for
the Twenty-First
Century
Hélène Landemore
P R I N C E TO N U N I V E R S IT Y P R E S S
P R I N C E TO NA N DOX F O R D
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Names: Landemore, Hélène, 1976– author.
Title: Open democracy : reinventing popular rule for the twenty-first century /
Hélène Landemore.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020022229 (print) | LCCN 2020022230 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780691181998 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780691212395 (paperback) |
ISBN 9780691208725 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Deliberative democracy. | Representative government and
representation. | Political participation. | Deliberative democracy—Iceland—Case studies.
Classification: LCC JC423 .L3356 2020 (print) | LCC JC423 (ebook) | DDC 321.8–dc23
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CONTENTS
Acknowl edgments ix
Prologue xiii
1 Introduction 1
A New Paradigm 11
On Vocabulary 18