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Preferred term
anti-democratic thought
Definition
- The term democracy originated in classical Athens and combines the ancient Greek words demos, meaning “the people,” and kratein, meaning “to rule.” From that time, anti-democratic arguments have taken a variety of forms, though some commentators (e.g., Dahl 1989) maintain that all of them are reducible to knowledge claims, or the “idea of guardianship,” according to which one person or group of people knows better than the rest how to maximize the interests of the community. This seems a rather simplistic way to characterize anti-democratic thought. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Anti-democratic Thought]
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W4H6JZPN-5
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