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Apr 7, 2020 · Joseph Schumpeter saw firsthand the transformative power of democracy in Red Vienna Austria and New Deal America. But as a conservative, he recoiled at workers' challenges to traditional hierarchies — reminding us that the Right has always loathed democracy.
Schumpeter defends political democracy not on the traditional grounds of protect- ing liberty and generating decisions reflecting the general will, but rather on its capacity to generate competent and creative political leadership.
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Joseph Schumpeter's 1942 book, Capitalism Socialism and Democracy, is probably best remembered for the two chapters on democracy. Chapter 21 is an influential critique of a vaguely defined, loosely located theory that he descnbes as the classical doctnne.
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Oct 23, 2017 · The classical model of democracy that Schumpeter criticizes is manufactured out of a variety of earlier ideas, not those of any one thinker or even one school of thought. His critique of the central ideals by which he defines the model—those of the common will and the common good—remains persuasive. People’s preferences are too messy and ...
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Schumpeter criticizes what he calls the classical doctrine of democracy, that the people through their common will elect representatives to realize the common good.
why any attempt to redefine democracy as Schumpeter suggested would soon be resisted-why the meaning of "democracy," that is, should have been vigorously contested. Before long, critics pointed out the inherent limits and conservative ideological implications of the "elite" or "contemporary" school of democratic
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For decades Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy has had a notable impact on democratic theorizing. Laurence O'Toole compares Schumpeter's thesis of the delegitimation of capitalism with his views toward the legitimacy of elitist democracy and finds a fundamental con-tradiction which has invariably been overlooked by theorists. The