Practice question · True or false
Schumpeter defined democracy as a method for choosing a government rather than as a state of affairs.
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- His definition is about a competitive struggle for the vote.
- It asks nothing of citizens between elections.
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True
Why
True, and the consequences are deliberate. On Schumpeter's account the people's role is to choose a government and nothing more; deliberation, participation and equality are not part of the definition. That is what makes it usable for classifying regimes and what its critics find impoverished.
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