00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002473 20221101013637 0010-0520002473 221101################|##########|#eng## 0-521-53431-3-x eng 341.8 341.8 MAC d Mackie, Gerry Democracy Defended / Gerry Mackie Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003 xvi, 483 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography p. 450 - 467 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. 1. democracy 05784/MKRI-P/IX-20008 07582/MKRI-P/XII-2007 05784/MKRI-P/IX-20008 07582/MKRI-P/XII-2007 07582/MKRI-P/XII-2007 05784/MKRI-P/IX-20008