No Virtue Like Resilience: Machiavelli's Realistic Justification of Democracy.

Is democracy a realistic political ideal? This article historically recovers and normatively assesses Machiavelli's intuition that democratic institutions are realistically desirable in virtue of their resilience. The article takes inspiration from Machiavelli's work in two ways. Methodologically, i...

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Published in:	Political Studies Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 1471 - 1491
Main Author:	Burelli, Carlo
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Nov2024
Subjects:	Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 Authoritarianism Intuition Political realism Normativity (Ethics) Psychological resilience
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost