Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy
Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy
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代议制民主：原则与谱系
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10.5860/choice.44-5904
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2006
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N. Urbinati
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通常认为代议制政府不是严格意义上的民主，因为它不允许人民自己直接作出决定。但在这里，Nadia Urbinati以Thomas Paine颠覆性的观点为指导，即“雅典，通过代表制，将超越她自己的民主”，挑战了这种公认的智慧，认为政治代表制应该被视为民主决策的完全合法模式，而不仅仅是在直接民主不可能时的实用主义第二选择。正如乌尔比纳提所表明的那样，代议制与民主不相容的观点源于我们现代的主权概念，它将政治等同于决策者的直接实际存在和意志的直接行动。她继续认为，民主的代议制理论能够也应该超越这些认同。她指出，政治代表最终是建立在政治判断所产生的影响力和权力的连续体之上的，也是通过思想和言论将社会与代表机构联系起来的存在方式。乌尔比纳蒂将卢梭、康德、西哀士、潘恩、孔多塞等思想家的思想与自己的思想巧妙地融合在一起，构建了一种发人深省的另类民主观。
It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine's subversive view that "Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy," Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision making - and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible.As Urbinati shows, the idea that representation is incompatible with democracy stems from our modern concept of sovereignty, which identifies politics with a decision maker's direct physical presence and the immediate act of the will. She goes on to contend that a democratic theory of representation can and should go beyond these identifications. Political representation, she demonstrates, is ultimately grounded in a continuum of influence and power created by political judgment, as well as the way presence through ideas and speech links society with representative institutions. Deftly integrating the ideas of such thinkers as Rousseau, Kant, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, Paine, and the Marquis de Condorcet with her own, Urbinati constructs a thought-provoking alternative vision of democracy.