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I outline the six key ways that Mill attempts to improve representation in democracies: rejection of pledges; rejection of secret ballot; graduated enfranchisement; commission of codification; unicameralism; and indirect election of president.
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The improvement of democratic representation remains a crucial issue today, but in the early 19th century, democracy was becoming intellectually defensible as a regime-type for the first time since the Athenian democracy. Making it more appealing to those on the fence was crucial to its future success.
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This page is a summary of: Mass and elite politics in Mill's considerations on representative Government, History of European Ideas, September 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2015.1077149.
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