Bernard Manin

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Bernard Manin (born April 19, 1951 in Marseille ) is a French political scientist and Professor of Politics at New York University .

Life

His main research interests are democracy theory (especially the comparison between democracy and aristocracy). Manin also deals with political representation .

Manin reconstructs different perspectives on the decision-making process in a democracy . In Athens, decisions by lot were considered a democratic process, while decisions by election were seen as an aristocratic mode of decision-making. This distinction was also common in ancient Rome and in the city-states of Italy.

In his work, Critique of Representative Democracy , under the heading “Metamorphoses of Representative Democracy”, he describes the change and reception of democratic forms of representation, from classical parliamentary democracy to party democracy to public democracy.

Type classic parliamentary democracy Party democracy Audience democracy
Selection of the representative Identification with individual candidates Identification with a party (along lines of conflict ) Identification with individual (top) candidates

Typical representative

Dignitaries Party activist Media professional
Public opinion in the political process Stop at the gates of Parliament Is expressed in the distinction between government and opposition It is of crucial importance in the election campaign and in the election
Place of decision making Negotiation in parliament Negotiation within and between the parties; Neocorporatism Negotiations between party and association elites, debate in the media
Accountability of the decision Decisions go back to parliamentary majority Decisions are made to parties (and also to associations) Decisions are based on external consultants and commissions
Autonomy of the representative MPs are subject only to their conscience Policy competence of the party leader; Faction discipline Choice based on an image ; Media suitability
accountability MPs accountable to the electorate Party and its members accountable to the electorate Top candidate against the media

Table based on :, also very similar

Works

  • The principles of representative government , Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-45258-9
    • German: Critique of Representative Democracy , translated by Tatjana Petzold, Mathes and Seitz, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-88221-022-2
  • On Legitimacy and Deliberation , in: Political Theory, 15th vol., H. 3/1987, pp. 338-368.

As editor

  • Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes and Bernard Manin (Eds.): Democracy, Accountability and Representation , Cambridge 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of Prof. Manin at New York University
  2. ↑ cf. Bernard Manin: Critique of Representative Democracy , Berlin 2007, p. 96.
  3. ^ Annette Knaut (2011): MPs as policy mediators. On the change in representation in modern democracies , Baden-Baden, here for example: p. 20.
  4. ↑ a b c cf. Julia von Blumenthal: emigration of politics from the institutions. Reply to Eberhard Schuett-Wetschky , in: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , 12th vol. (2002), no. 1, pp. 3–26, here: p. 11.
  5. ↑ cf. Bernard Manin: Critique of Representative Democracy , Berlin 2007, pp. 193–238.
  6. ↑ cf. Annette Knaut: MPs as a policy mediator. On the change in representation in modern democracies , Baden-Baden, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Manin, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille