TY - JOUR
T1 - Consensus, conflict, and compromise in western
T2 - Thought on representative government
AU - Przeworski, Adam
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Representative government in the West was born under an ideology that postulated a basic harmony of interests in society. The political decision process was thus expected to be largely consensual. This ideology obfuscated important conflicts of values and interests, and it became untenable with the rise of mass, class-based and religious parties. Beginning with Kelsen (1923) and culminating with Schumpeter (1942), theorists of representative government conceptualized it as a system for processing conflicts. In one view, representation is assured by compromises among parties, in another by partisan alternation in office.
AB - Representative government in the West was born under an ideology that postulated a basic harmony of interests in society. The political decision process was thus expected to be largely consensual. This ideology obfuscated important conflicts of values and interests, and it became untenable with the rise of mass, class-based and religious parties. Beginning with Kelsen (1923) and culminating with Schumpeter (1942), theorists of representative government conceptualized it as a system for processing conflicts. In one view, representation is assured by compromises among parties, in another by partisan alternation in office.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.05.058
DO - 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.05.058
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:77955253464
SN - 1877-0428
VL - 2
SP - 7042
EP - 7055
JO - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
JF - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
IS - 5
ER -