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BL
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997962
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b752332
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Van Mill, David.
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| Title & Author
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Deliberation, social choice and absolutist democracy /\ David van Mill.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2006.
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Routledge innovations in political theory ;; 22
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1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203086406
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: 9780203086407
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0415390923
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9780415390927
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| Notes
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"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."
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Title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2009).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Overview of the chapters -- A comparison of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- Discourse and democracy -- Social choice theory -- Criticisms of deliberative democracy -- Criticisms of social choice theory -- Conclusion -- Circumventing Arrow's theorem -- Introduction -- What hope for democracy? -- Can deliberative democracy and social choice theory be made compatible? -- Abandoning democratic purity -- Limiting participation -- Conclusion -- An empirical test of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- A broad description of the institution -- Case studies : administration and governance of the west, and the location of the capital -- Conclusion -- Hobbesian sovereignty -- Introduction -- Hobbesian sovereignty -- Hobbes's intentions -- Success? -- Conclusion : Hobbesian absolutism revisited -- Democracy versus constitutionalism -- Introduction -- The fear of the majority -- Free speech -- Back to constitutions -- The British Constitution -- Conclusion : limits on parliamentary supremacy.
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Decision making.
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Democracy.
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Social choice.
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Decision making.
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Democracy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.
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Social choice.
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| Dewey Classification
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321.8
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JC423.V345 2006eb
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