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%T Democratic elitism and western political thought (2009) %A Higley, John %J Historical Social Research %N 1 %P 351-366 %V 37 %D 2012 %@ 0172-6404 %~ GESIS %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-372767 %X "Many political thinkers have viewed democratic elitism as closing a democratic road they believe is or should be open-ended. Their view of democratic possibilities reflects the auspicious circumstances of Western societies during the past several centuries and especially since World War II. However, it involves a conflation of liberal and democratic values. I examine why and how this has occurred, and I argue that liberal and democratic values must be more clearly separated in today's dangerous world. In step with Schumpeter, democracy must be regarded as a method or instrumental value that in some but by no means all circumstances promotes the ultimate liberal value of actively individualistic free people." (author's abstract) %C DEU %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info