Direct and Representative Democracy. The Debate in Revolutionary France (1789-1795)

Autor:	Antonio Senta
Jazyk:	English<br />Italian
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Democrazia Francia rivoluzionaria Rappresentanza Mandato Assemblee primarie Political science (General) JA1-92
Zdroj:	Scienza & Politica, Vol 29, Iss 56 (2017)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1590-4946 1825-9618
DOI:	10.6092/issn.1825-9618/7105
Popis:	This essay explores the debate concerning the idea of democracy in the French Revolution (1789-1795). It shows that this idea is based upon representative democracy as well as direct democracy, maintaining a complex and precarious equilibrium between the two. It investigates the different political-institutional means used in those years, the parliamentary debates and the three constitutions (1791, 1793, 1795), focusing on concepts such as representation, electoral mandate and primary assemblies. Representative democracy and direct democracy turn out to be neither distant from nor alternative to each other, but interdependent and mutual.
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