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=100   #$$a Mackie, Gerry
=245  1#$$a Democracy Defended /$c Gerry Mackie
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=300  ##$$a xvi, 483 p. ; $c 24 cm.
=504  ##$$a Bibliography p. 450 - 467
=520  ##$$a In 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.
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