Democracy

"Democracy needs to be both participative and representative. For it to function successfully people must be actively involved in decision making as well as being properly represented. It is not easy to harness together these two facets of democracy. How to do so forms the basis of this book. Many concrete proposals are put forward, with the ideas of two great nineteenth-century thinkers, Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill, forming the constant backdrop to the book's arguments."--Jacket.