Although this is less often commented on in the academic literature, democracy is as much about opposition to the arbitrary exercise of power as it is about collective self-government....


"Democratic Justice" in The Democracy Sourcebook (2003) edited by Robert Dahl, Ian Shapiro, and José Antonio Cheibub.

Ian Shapiro Quotes

Although this is less often commented on in the academic literature, democracy is as much about opposition to the arbitrary exercise of power as it...

Although this is less often commented on in the academic literature, democracy is as much about opposition to the arbitrary exercise of power as it...

Although this is less often commented on in the academic literature, democracy is as much about opposition to the arbitrary exercise of power as it...

Although this is less often commented on in the academic literature, democracy is as much about opposition to the arbitrary exercise of power as it...