Considerations on Representative Government

Informationen zum Autor By John Stuart Mill Klappentext In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader may sense that Mill is being pulled in opposing directions: steadfastly committed to majority rule with minority rights while at the same time being just enough of an aristocrat to believe that the masses need examplars to emulate.On Representative Government is one of the most compelling political essays of the 19th century. Zusammenfassung In this powerful work! John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader may sense that Mill is being pulled in opposing directions: steadfastly committed to majority rule with minority rights while at the same time being just enough of an aristocrat to believe that the masses need examplars to emulate. On Representative Government is one of the most compelling political essays of the 19th century.

Product details

• Authors: John Stuart Mill, John Mill
• Assisted by: Robert M. Baird (Editor), Stuart E. Rosenbaum (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.05.1991
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780879756703
• ISBN: 978-0-87975-670-3
• Series: Great Books in Philosophy; Contemporary Issues (Prometheu; Great Books in Philosophy
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Political; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Essays; PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers