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The Theory of Democratic Elitism Revisited: A Response to Vengroffand Morton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2005

Paul M. Sniderman ,
Joseph F. Fletcher ,
Peter H. Russel ,
Philip E. Tetlock  and
Markus Prior
Paul M. Sniderman
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Joseph F. Fletcher
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Canada
Peter H. Russel
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Canada
Philip E. Tetlock
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Markus Prior
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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Two questions have dominated the modern study of politics. How do political systems become democratic? And how, supposing they have managed to become democratic, do they manage to remain so? As yet, there is no agreement on the answer to the first question. For a generation, however, there has been consensus on a core part of the answer to the second. In democratic polities, political elites have come to consensus in support of democratic rights, and in times of political stress this elite consensus has served as a bulwark protecting citizens' liberties.

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Comment / Commentaire
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 569 - 586
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© The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique

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