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Three Mistakes about Democracy
Philip Pettit
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0355-3896Janusz Grygieńć
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8586-6820(translation from English and scientific study by Janusz Grygieńć et al.)
Abstract
This paper addresses three claims that are often made among contemporary policy-makers, political scientists and political theorists about democracy. The claims, in my view, are false and indeed revealingly false: they display a serious misunderstanding of the nature and appeal of democracy. As we see why they are false, we will come to appreciate dimensions of democracy that easily escape notice. I name the mistakes after outstanding thinkers who have made them. The first I describe as Berlin’s mistake, finding it in the work of the Anglo-Russian philosopher, Isaiah Berlin. The second I describe as Schumpeter’s mistake, naming it after the Austrian-American banker, economist and political thinker, Joseph Schumpeter. And the third I describe as Riker’s mistake, associating it with William Riker, the American political scientist, famous for his distinction between liberalism and populism.
The original: Philip Pettit, ”Three Mistakes About Democracy”, in Philosophy and Political Engagement. Reflection in the Public Sphere, ed. Allyn Fives i Keith Breen (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 187–199. The original article appeared in Kilikya Felsefe Dergisi 2 (2015): 1–13. We thank the Author and the Editors of Kilikya Felsefe Dergisi for their consent to the publication of this translation.
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democracy, republicanism, Isaiah Berlin, Joseph Schumpeter, William RikerDetails
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