1982/01/01 by Jonathan M. Davis · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Global Peace and Security Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1982.tb00679.x
openalex publication_date 1982/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
QADDAFI'S THEORY OF POLITICS AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION amounts to the assertion that all forms of representation in fact result in unrepresentative government; that therefore they must be unjust; that therefore they must be replaced by nonrepresentative government. The Green Book describes the institutions of such government but is by no means utterly explicit about the relations between institutions, or about the way personnel are recruited to them. To examine what happens in practice at elections, surely critical events in a nonrepresentative system, suggests that Qaddafi is less a Periclean Legislator than an interpreter, casts some light on the theory, and hints at the nature of the concept of political community underlying both The Green Book and contemporary Libyan society.