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100	1	0	_aAzzolini, Giulio _eauthor
245	0	0	_aPolitical Elites and Democracy: Theoretico-Political Perspectives
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520			_aThis article seeks to assess the democratic potential of the concept of a political elite. Against a merely empirical use of this concept (predominant in the twentieth century), we show, from the perspective of political theory, that it can also be understood as an a-democratic, fully democratic, and even progressive notion—thus extending the work of Bernard Manin, Giovanni Sartori, and Eva Etzioni-Halevy. Understood in a philosophically normative (rather than descriptive) sense, far from being a blight on democracy, political elites constitute one of its soundest anchor points.
786	0		_nLe philosophoire | o 46 | 2 | 2016-12-23 | p. 87-105 | 1283-7091
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-le-philosophoire-2016-2-page-87?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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