Ebook: Democracy's dangers & discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama
Author: Thornton Bruce S
- Tags: Democracy -- History. Democracy -- 21st century. Democracy -- 20th century. Economy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Democracy.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
- Language: English
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By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics Read more...
Abstract: By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces the historical process by which the Republic of the founders has evolved into something sim