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Contra Las Elecciones /Against Elections: The Case for Democracy: Como Salvar La Democracia

Contra Las Elecciones /Against Elections: The Case for Democracy: Como Salvar La Democracia

          
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La democracia está en muy mal estado. Contra las elecciones es una propuesta heterodoxa, brillante y muy oportuna que ofrece un diagnóstico inesperado y un remedio muy antiguo para evitar que las elecciones destruyan la democracia.

Las últimas elecciones han confirmado el auge de los populismos basados en el miedo y una amplia desconfianza hacia las élites, y se han convertido en concursos de popularidad en lugar de ser un contraste razonado de propuestas.

Como explica este brillante libro, el objetivo inicial de las elecciones era excluir a la gente del poder mediante la selección de una élite que les gobernara. De hecho, durante la mayor parte de los 3.000 años de historia de la democracia, las elecciones no existían, y los cargos se repartían usando una combinación de sorteos y voluntarios que se ofrecían.

A partir de estudios y ejemplos de todo el mundo, este influyentey radical manifiesto presenta una propuesta real para una democracia verdadera, una democracia que funcione de verdad. Urgente, heterodoxo y enormemente persuasivo, Contra las elecciones solo deja una pregunta sin contestar: «¿A qué estamos esperando?».

Reseñas:
«La elección de nuestros gobernantes con el voto popular no ha conseguido un auténtico gobierno democrático: ese parece el veredicto de la historia como estamos viendo. Puede que a esta idea le haya llegado el momento.»
J.M. Coetzee

«La convincente propuesta de un nuevo sistema diseñado para conseguir la sólida base del respaldo del pueblo.»
Financial Times

«Un libro que demuestra de manera convincente que es un error asociar democracia y elecciones.»
The Observer

«Una obra excelente e iconoclasta que no podría ser más oportuna. La demostración de que, lejos de proteger nuestras libertades, las elecciones son en realidad un obstáculo para la democracia.»
Karen Armstrong

«Muy convincente. Un libro estimulante que anticipa una idea prometedora. Fresco, desafiante y sencillo.»
Daniel Finkelstein, The Times

«Preguntándose por qué deberíamos aceptar que los lobbies ejerzan su influencia en la política mientras se vacila en una participación activa de los ciudadanos, o por qué existen jurados populares y no puede haber seres corrientes tomando decisiones, Van Reybrouck, con audacia argumentativa, explica los peligros del populismo y la tecnocracia y pone el peso en el ser humano corriente, que puede ser superior en su independencia a la masa de políticos.»
Toni Montesinos, La Razón

«El mayor enemigo de la democracia son las elecciones porque, al albur de las urnas, los representantes públicos dejan de pensar en el bien general para centrarse, únicamente, en tomar las decisiones que les faciliten su reelección cada cuatro años.»
Álvaro Soto, El comercioENGLISH DESCRIPTIONDemocracy is in bad health. The symptoms are familiar: the rise of fear-mongering populists, widespread distrust in the establishment, personality contests, and point-scoring in place of reasoned debate, slogans instead of expertise.

Against Elections offers a new diagnosis --and an ancient remedy. David Van Reybrouck reminds us that the original purpose of elections was to exclude the people from power by appointing an elite to govern over them. He demonstrates how over time their effect has been to reduce the people's participation in government to an absolute minimum, ensure power remains in the hands of those who already wield it, and force politicians to judge policies not on their merits but on their likelihood to win or lose votes. And that's when elections go well.

Yet for most of democracy's 3000-year history governments were not chosen by election at all: they were appointed, much like the jury system, through a combination of volunteering and lottery. Drawing on vast learning, an international array of evidence, and a growing number of successful trials, Against Elections demonstrates how a sophisticated and practical version of this ancient system would work today and thus eliminate the underlying cause of democracy's sickness. Urgent, heretical, and completely convincing, this book leaves only one question to be answered: what are we waiting for?
About the Author: David Van Reybrouck (Brujas, 1971) estudió arqueología y filosofía en las universidades de Lovaina y Cambridge, y es doctor por la Universidad de Leiden. Sus libros The Plague (2001) y Congo (2010, traducido a quince idiomas) le consagraron como uno de los mejores escritores europeos de no ficción. También es un prestigioso autor teatral. En 2011 Van Reybrouck lanzó el G1000, una cumbre ciudadana y organización que funciona como plataforma para la innovación democrática en Bélgica. Desde ese mismo año preside el PEN en Flandes.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788430618422
  • Publisher: Taurus
  • Publisher Imprint: Taurus
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 294 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8430618422
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 130 mm


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