David Van Reybrouck

Broschiertes Buch

Against Elections

The Case for Democracy

Übersetzer: Waters, Liz

Beschreibung

Democracy is in bad health. This book offers a new diagnosis - and an ancient remedy. It shows that the original purpose of elections was to exclude the people from power by appointing an elite to govern over them. Based on studies and trials from around the globe, it presents the practical case for a true democracy - one that actually works.

Autor

David Van Reybrouck (Author) David Van Reybrouck is the author of Congo: The Epic History of a People, which won twenty prizes, sold over half a million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. His book Against Elections has been translated into more than twenty languages and has led to the trial use of participatory democracy in numerous countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. His plays Mission and Para have been performed across Europe, and his novel Zinc won the European Book Prize 2017. Revolusi was first published in the Netherlands, where it was a major bestseller. David Van Reybrouck has been described as 'one of the leading intellectuals in Europe' (Der Tagesspiegel) and 'one of the most brilliant European intellectuals of the moment' (Le Soir). He is Belgian, writes in Dutch and is based in Brussels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bodley Head / Random House UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9781847924223
• ISBN-10: 1847924220
• Artikelnr.: 45089102

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