Citizen-centred democratic theory is dead. Long live citizen-centred theory! It’s time we designed a politics for citizens as they really are, not how we’d like them to be

Parvin, Phil (2018) Citizen-centred democratic theory is dead. Long live citizen-centred theory! It’s time we designed a politics for citizens as they really are, not how we’d like them to be [['eprint_typename_blog_post' not defined]]

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Forms of democracy that depend on high levels of public participation and civic deliberation are unrealistic, argues Phil Parvin. Instead, political reform should focus less on increased participation and more on representation, in particular to counter the effects of elite lobbying by economically powerful interest groups.

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Copyright holders	© 2018 The Author(s)
Departments	LSE
Date Deposited	15 May 2021 11:18
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109610

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