Inherent contradictions of democracy: Illustrations from national broadcasting corporations

Eva Etzioni-Halevy

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Inherent contradictions of democracy: Illustrations from national broadcasting corporations

Eva Etzioni-Halevy

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

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The purpose of this paper is to map out and illustrate some of the major contradictions inherent in the manner in which power is exercised (and conceived of) in a democracy. The main argument is that the confrontation of the democratic ally elected elite's power by the power of other elites is both a danger and a necessity for democracy and that this internal contradiction finds expression in ambivalent, self-contradictory, and controversial "rules of the game" of the democratic process. This argument is supported by illustrations from the area of bureaucracy and in particular from one type of semi governmental bureaucracy,
national broadcasting corporations and their elites in four western-style democracies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Language and Communication in Israel
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Inc.
Pages	535-556
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351291040
ISBN (Print)	9781560009986
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351291040-31
State	Published - 16 Jan 2018

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Comparative Politics
Vol. 20, No. 3 (Apr., 1988), pp. 325-340 (16 pages)
Published By: Comparative Politics, Ph.D. Programs in Political Science, City University of New York
Comparative Politics
https://doi.org/10.2307/421807
https://www.jstor.org/stable/421807

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