Joseph Schumpeter's Caesarist Democracy

Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 29 (4):473-491 (2017)
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ABSTRACTSchumpeter’s highly influential theory of democracy, developed in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, is less a market-based theory of party competition than it is a theory of strong leadership, modeled after generalship. As such, it is a weak foundation for rebuilding a democratic theory of party politics. Moreover, Schumpeter’s demolition of the “Classical Doctrine of Democracy” knocks down a straw-man theory: a hybrid of Bentham’s utilitarianism and Rousseau’s communitarianism that few contemporary theorists of democracy would be willing to defend.

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Josiah Ober
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The Construction of Social Reality.John Searle - 1995 - Philosophy 71 (276):313-315.

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