TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nun,José
TI  - Democracy: government of the people or government of the politicians? 
T2  - Serie breves
SN  - 0742520390 (alk. paper)
AV  - JC 423 N972d 2003
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Démocratie
KW  - Amérique latine
KW  - Democracia
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -