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Ideas of David van Reybrouck, by Text
[Belgian, fl. 2013, Freelance political writer.]
1 'Crisis'
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p.6
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20085
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Democracy is the best compromise between legitimacy and efficiency
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1 'Crisis'
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p.12
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20086
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Nowadays sovereignty (once the basis of a state) has become relative
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2 'democracy'
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p.23
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20089
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Technocrats may be efficient, but they lose legitimacy as soon as they do unpopular things
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2 'electoral'
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p.55
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20090
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Today it seems almost impossible to learn the will of the people
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2 'populism'
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p.18
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20087
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There are no united monolothic 'peoples', and no 'national gut feelings'
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2 'technocracy'
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p.21
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20088
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Technocrats are expert managers, who replace politicians, and can be long-term and unpopular
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3 'democratisation'
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p.104
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20093
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In the 18th century democratic lots lost out to elections, that gave us a non-hereditary aristocracy
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3 'procedure'
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p.62
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20091
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Representative elections were developed in order to avoid democracy
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4 intro
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p.106
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20094
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You don't really govern people if you don't involve them
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4 'remedies'
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p.124
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20095
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A referendum result arises largely from ignorance
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