Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2120: Power and Democracy

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Joseph Schumpeter (1943) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. London: Allen & Unwin, ch.20-22.

Margaret Canovan (1999) ‘Trust the People! Populism and the two Faces of Democracy’, Political Studies 47: 2-16.

Jeffrey Green (2010) The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship. Oxford University Press, ch.1 & 2 (excerpts).

Michael Saward (2009) ‘Authorisation and Authenticity: Representation and the Unelected’, Journal of Political Philosophy 17(1): 1-22.

Bruce Ackerman & James Fishkin (2002) ‘Deliberation Day’, The Journal of Political Philosophy 10(2): 129-152.

Iris Marion Young (2001) ‘Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy’, Political Theory 29(5): 670-690.

Bernard Yack (2001) ‘Popular Sovereignty and Nationalism’, Political Theory 29(4): 517-536.

Jose Medina (2012) ‘Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction’ in The Epistemology of Resistance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch.1.