Democracy : government of the people or government of the politicians? /
José Nun.
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.
- vii, 151 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical currents in Latin American perspective .
- Serie breves .
- Serie Breves (Fondo de Cultura Económica (México)). .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-140) and index.
Family resemblances -- Athens and Sparta -- Schumpeter and the politicians -- The pluralist theories -- The declaration of 1948 -- Capitalism and democracy : a first approach -- The Keynesian alchemy -- Marshall and the citizens -- From Schumpeter to Marshall -- The experience in the developed capitalist countries -- European transitions to democracy -- Capitalism and democracy : a second approach -- Legitimacy, moral autonomy, and preferences -- From the thirty glorious years to the great recession -- Welfare states in transition -- The problematic of social exclusion -- The Latin American case -- An unhappy balance -- An idea and its concrete manifestations -- Conditional democracy -- Deceiving resemblances.
Nascent debates about democracy in the contemporary developing world are modified by such descriptions as delegative, incomplete or even authoritarian. Nun provides a comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of democracy from ancient Greece to contemporary Latin America.