The civic bargain : how democracy survives

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The civic bargain : how democracy survives

Brook Manville and Josiah Ober

Princeton University Press, c2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: democracy's real deal
  • Fundamentals: essential conditions for democracy
  • Athens: the bargain that invented the power of the citizenry
  • Rome: the compromises that created the first great republic
  • Britain: the royal bargains that made parliament sovereign
  • United States: painful compromises in search of a more perfect union
  • Patterns in democratic bargaining and survival
  • Keeping the deal real

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