01440     2200277   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020002000097041000800117082001000125084001600135100001800151245003900169260005100208300002600259504003000285520067400315650001700989990002601006990002601032990002601058990002601084990002601110990002601136INLIS00000000000247320221101013637  a0010-0520002473221101                |          | eng    a0-521-53431-3-x  aeng  a341.8  a341.8 MAC d0 aMackie, Gerry1 aDemocracy Defended /cGerry Mackie  aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2003  axvi, 483 p. ;c24 cm.  aBibliography p. 450 - 467  aIn this powerful book, Gerry Mackie confronts and subdues these long-standing doubts about democratic governance. Problems of cycling, agenda control, strategic voting, and dimensional manipulation are not sufficiently harmful, frequent, or irremediable, he argues, to be of normative concern. Mackie also examines every serious empirical illustration of cycling and instability, including Riker?s famous argument that the US Civil War was due to arbitrary dimensional manipulation. Almost every empirical claim is erroneous, and none is normatively troubling, Mackie says. This spirited defence of democratic institutions should prove both provocative and influential. 4a1. democracy  a05784/MKRI-P/IX-20008  a07582/MKRI-P/XII-2007  a05784/MKRI-P/IX-20008  a07582/MKRI-P/XII-2007  a07582/MKRI-P/XII-2007  a05784/MKRI-P/IX-20008