Representative Democracy: A Justification

Despite the not-so-distant invocations of the "end of history," representative democracy is, today, under siege even from corners where one once might have expected strong sympathy and support. Indeed, confidence in representative democracy has, in recent years, been shaken by the economic and political performance of many such regimes.

Representative Democracyexplains why the definitive institutional features of representative democracy-the electoral selection of policymaking officials who ...