COMMUNAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS HISTORY

Authors
BLACK A
Citation
A. Black, COMMUNAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS HISTORY, Political studies, 45(1), 1997, pp. 5-20
Citations number
46
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science
Journal title
Political studies → ACNP
ISSN journal
00323217
Volume
45
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
5 - 20
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-3217(1997)45:1<5:CDAIH>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Communes and communal thought are an essential part of the history of democracy. By recognizing this we can re-discover the connection betwe en democracy and local, small-scale self-government, and see that demo cracy has a communitarian as well as a liberal foundation.