… If it is illegitimate for Swedish voters to vote on Denmark’s demos it must be because of some
… of who has legitimate standing to make democratic decisions about Denmark’s demos. …

Until relatively recently, few democrats had much to say about the constitution of the ‘demos'
that ought to rule. A number of recent writers have, however, argued that all those whose …

… of this, but the effect it has on Demos, I think, is not to make it a more accurate novel but to
make its inaccuracies more insidious, and hence, for the critic who is trying to document the …

… Interestingly, even critics of global democracy acknowledge that today we are faced with
genuine global concerns, such as international trade, finance, and anthropogenic climate …

… , we would hardly call it a legitimate demos because it does not fulfil any participatory
normative standard.Besides these descriptive elements, the demos also has a normative aspect. …

… In Democracy and Its Critics , Robert Dahl writes about two major transformations of
democracy: first, the development of direct democracy in Greek city-states, then second, the …

… It is said that our demos now comprises some forty thousand citizens.4 How can we know
one another when we are so many? Citizens who neglect the meetings of the Assembly, as …

… This lack of a core institutional complex of power in the state puts our evaluation of its
democratic potential at a different level precisely because the rulers in the state seem to be “a …

… Or, alternatively, of a plurality of detnoi into a pluralistic demos. It is to Europe's could‐be
demos that we now turn, in an attempt to recast the debate of democracy and integration in the …

… The Old Oligarch, at 2.18, says that ridicule and criticism of the demos was "not tolerated" …
blames the demos only to exhort it to recapture the ideals and the glory which it has lost by …