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Editorial: The Imperfection of Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2001

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In an earlier age there was much discussion of a so-called ‘paradox of democracy’. The point seemed to be about what would happen if a democratic society voted democratically to abolish its democratic procedures and to move to a dictatorship. Would that be democratic or not?

Type
Editorial
Information
Philosophy , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 337
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© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2001