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

Main Author: Samons, Loren J.
Corporate Authors: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.