Abstract
The introductory chapter frames the conceptual and theoretical bases for the distinction between personal and collegial democracies that our book proposes. It presents three pure types of democratic institutional order: centralized-personal, collegial, and decentralized-personal. It then shows how the classification of personal versus collegial democratic orders corresponds with prominent theories and approaches to studying politics. Next, it briefly explains the book’s conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions, and its recommendations for sustaining democracy in an era of personal politics. Also, it acknowledges the major limitation of the research - the difficulty of clearly identifying centralized personalism in some cases and decentralized personalism in others. It ends with a short synopsis of each of the chapters that follow.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy |
| Subtitle of host publication | ‘We’ the People or ‘I’ the People? |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040003053 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032396064 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Chen Friedberg and Gideon Rahat; individual chapters, the contributors.