Democracy : the unfinished journey, 508 BC to AD 1993
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Democracy : the unfinished journey, 508 BC to AD 1993
Oxford University Press, 1992
Available at 39 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index
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Description
2500 years ago the small Greek city state of Athens invented a new form of political regime. This book explains how a casual practical solution to local Greek political difficulties so very long ago has come to stand virtually unchallenged as the ground for modern political authority. It shows how the idea of democracy has kept its power in a world which is utterly different from the world of classical Greece and how the questions which the Greeks first raised about the meaning of democratic rule still loom over human political and economic institutions in a setting in which no modern population can ever rule in practice, day by day, as the Athenian demos ruled. By viewing its history across this great arc of time, the book shows why democracy today has both the power and the vulnerability which make it the key to understanding politics; and it explains why it has triumphed so decisively in the modern world.
Table of Contents
- Creation and development of democratic institutions of Ancient Greece, Simon Hornblower
- Ancient Greek political theory as a response to democracy, Cynthia Farrar
- democracy, philosophy and science in Ancient Greece, Geofrey Lloyd
- the Italian city repubics, Quentin Skinner
- the levellers, David Wootton
- democracy and the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood
- democracy and the French Revolution, Biancamaria Fontana
- democracy since the French Revolution, Charles S. Maier
- the Marxist-Leninist detour, Neil Harding
- India's democratic career, Sunhil Khilnani
- losing the faith - feminism and democracy, Susan Mendus
- 1989 in Eastern Europe - constitutional representative democracy as return to "normality", Neal Acherson.
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