“Merecracy”, or Party Democracy Gone Wrong: Overlooked Lessons from Bobbio’s Democratic Theory

• In Event: Laws, Rights and the Common Good

Brief Overview

The paper draws on Bobbio’s democratic theory to explore the elusive difference between parties and factions in party democracies and thus contribute to the recent literature on parties/partisanship in historical and contemporary political thought.

Author

• David Ragazzoni, Columbia University, New York