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What's wrong with democracy? : from Athenian practice to American worship /

In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration...

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Основен автор: Samons, Loren J.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Berkeley : University of California Press, ℗♭2004.
Предмети:
Democracy > History.
Direct democracy > Greece > Athens.
Republicanism > United States > History.
Representative government and representation > United States.
Political culture > United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Civilization > Greek influences.
Democracy.
Direct democracy.
Political culture.
Representative government and representation.
Republicanism.
United States > Civilization > Greek influences.
Greece > Athens.
United States > .
Electronic books.
History
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Подобни документи: Print version:: What's wrong with democracy?.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • Athenian society and government
  • Democracy and demagogues : election, voting, and qualifications for citizenship
  • Public finance : democracy and the people's purse
  • Foreign policy I : democracy imperial
  • Foreign policy II : the Peloponnesian War
  • National defense : democracy defeated
  • Democracy and religion
  • Conclusion : Socrates, Pericles, and the citizen.

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