na INLIS000000000004800 20221024025011 0010-0520004800 221024 | | eng 0521827086 eng 321.8 321.8 MAC d Mackie, Gerry Democracy Defended / Gerry Mackie New York : Thomson, 2003 xvi, 483p. : :illus, ; 23cm. Indeks : p.468-483 A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such skepticism began with Condorcet in eighteenth century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In thispowerful books, Gery 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. Democracy 09258/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09258/MKRI-P/XI-2008