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Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy: ‘We' the People or ‘I' the People? book cover

1st Edition

Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy ‘We' the People or ‘I' the People?

Edited By Chen Friedberg, Gideon Rahat Copyright 2024
134 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

134 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines two patterns of democracy – collegial and personal – through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracies. Central institutions in democracy are classified according to their levels of personalism and collegialism, including political parties,... Read more

1. Introduction: collegial versus personal democratic institutional order

Chen Friedberg and Gideon Rahat

 

2. Collegial versus personal political parties

Gideon Rahat

 

3. Candidate selection methods and electoral systems: between collegialism and personalism

Or Tuttnauer

 

4. Collegial versus personal parliaments

Avital Friedman and Shahaf Zamir

 

5. Collegial versus personal cabinets and governments

Eyal Ben Shimol, Reuven Y. Hazan and Gideon Rahat

 

6. Collegial democracy versus personal democracy

Chen Friedberg and Gideon Rahat

Biography

Chen Friedberg is a senior lecturer in the Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science Department at Ariel University and a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

Gideon Rahat heads the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he holds the Gersten Family Chair in Political Science. He is also a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

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