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CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY

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a. 'The core principle of democracy is self rule' (Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, p. 43). What problems have arisen in putting this principle into practice?

b. Is democracy best understood as an ideal standard or as a practical system of government?

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch. 3.

A. Arblaster, Democracy

I. Budge, The New Challenge of Direct Democracy (Cambridge: Polity, 1996)

R. Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics

R. Dahl, I. Shapiro and J. Cheibub, eds, The Democracy Sourcebook

A. Hadenius, ed., Democracy's Victory and Crisis, chs 16 and 17

D. Held, Models of Democracy

J. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy