In Direct Democracy or Representative Government? John Haskell deals with the relative merits of populist democracy and representative government. In this expansive, well-written, accessible, polemic account, Haskell traces the development of two dominant strains in American politics: the populist impulse that has fueled efforts to implement direct democracy for two centuries, and a representative political system as envisioned by James Madison in The Federal Papers. According to Haskell, the possibilities for direct democracy's realization have increased dramatically in recent years, particularly with television,the internet, and the explosion of politics-by-plebiscite in states like California. Haskell contends this is a bad thing because it augurs not simply tyranny by the majority, but incoherence, and he shows through his application of social choice theory how political majorities are unstable agglomerations of wildly conflicting opinions and motives. An elected body, however, is deliberative rather than impulsive,a dn can resort to all sorts of tactics to ameliorate and amend a bill so that it adresses the concerns of a much wider spectrum of interest groups. In this book Haskell presents both his application of social choice theory to the problem and a spirited defense of liberal, republican government.
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