Democracy How Direct? Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era

For more than two hundred years Americans have been debating how direct a democracy they want. Many hold that representative government too seldom reflects the people's real views, while others counter that direct popular voting will lead to excesses of passion and deficits of deliberation. In Democracy: How Direct? Elliot Abrams brings together eminent scholars to discuss the issues surrounding the dilemma of a representative versus direct democracy.Abrams, Elliott is the author of 'Democracy How Direct? Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era' with ISBN 9780742523180 and ISBN 0742523187.