Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy
'We' the People or 'I' the People?
- 134 pages
- English
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Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy
'We' the People or 'I' the People?
About This Book
This book examines two patterns of democracy â collegial and personal â through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions.
It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracies. Central institutions in democracy are classified according to their levels of personalism and collegialism, including political parties, candidate selection methods and electoral systems, legislature, and cabinets and governments. The book presents preliminary findings concerning the causes for this variance between the two democratic regime types.
The book will be of key interest to students and scholars of democratic institutions, personalism and personalization, political parties and, more broadly, democracy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures, tables and appendixes
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: collegial versus personal democratic institutional order
- 2 Collegial versus personal political parties
- 3 Candidate selection methods and electoral systems: between collegialism and personalism
- 4 Collegial versus personal parliaments
- 5 Collegial versus personal cabinets and governments
- 6 Collegial democracy versus personal democracy
- Index