The Crisis of Representative Democracy
Papers presented at the International Symposion on the Crisis of Representative Democracy and Possible Alternatives, Geneva, 15-17 November 1985

Contents

I. The History of the Concept of Representation
Contributions by Hans R. Klecatsky, Michael Benedikt, Jean-François Kervegan

II. The Concept of Representation in European and American Political Thinking
Contributions by Hans Köchler, Joao C. Brum Torres, Jeffrey H. King

III. The Deficiencies of the Western Representative System
Contributions by William D. Perdue, Carlo Mongardini, J. J. Gleizal, Robert Charvin, Wilhelm Vossenkuhl, Rajab Boudabbous

IV. Conceptions of Democracy in the Third World
Contributions by Bashir A. Malik, Themba Sono, P. F. Gonidec, Jean Ziegler

V. The Alternatives
Contributions by Anton Pelinka, Rolf Stolz, Milan Sahovic, Geoffrey Darnton, Francis Dessart