POLS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Introduction - Manin: Representative Democracy, Entrust, Direct Democracy
3 Oct 2016
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Introduction - manin - the principles of representative government. Contemporary democratic governments have evolved from a political system that was conceived by its founders as opposed to democracy. Rousseau, saw a fundamental difference between democracy and the system they defended, a system they called representative or republican . Madison and sieyes - played crucial role in establishing modern political representation - contrasted representative government and democracy in similar terms. Real difference between ancient democracies and modern republics lies, according to. Madison, in the total exclusion of the people in their collective capacity from any share in the latter, and not in the total exclusion of the representative of the people from the administration of the former . Sieyes - difference between democracy, in which the citizens make the laws themselves, and the representative system of government, in which they entrust the exercise of their power to elected representatives.
