Introduction: New democratic theory?

Jean Paul Gagnon

doi:10.1057/9781137322777_1

Introduction: New democratic theory?

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Abstract

Something is happening to democracy. A change has occurred. An entire discourse has been transformed as a result of recent logical and moral shifts in the methods of research and the ontologies of theory. Democracy is now a body of knowledge unlike that we have seen before. By democracy I mean the entirety of human knowledge about the subject — the way we think about it as a whole and the way we institutionalize or measure what we think are its most basic tenets. Today democracy is, for example, being described differently to the way that Dahl (1956), Mayo (1960), Sartori (1957), Schumpeter (1942), Macpherson (1977) and Dewey (1916) described it in their own works and in their own times.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Democratic Theorists in Conversation
Subtitle of host publication	Turns in Contemporary Thought
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	1
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	13
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137322777
ISBN (Print)	9781349458554
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137322777_1
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Democratic Theorists in Conversation

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