Ebook: Democracy: A Reader

Your collection of key texts on Democracy, from classical political philosophy to the present day

• 99 individual readings: view the full table of contents

Put together specially for students of democracy, this invaluable reader gathers key statements from political thinkers, explained and contextualised with editorial commentaries. Arranged into four sections – Traditional Affirmations of Democracy, Key Concepts, Critiques of Democracy and Contemporary Issues – it covers democratic thinking in a remarkably broad way.

Key Features

• Includes seminal statements from the most influential political thinkers including Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Schumpeter, Berlin, Marx, Lenin, Phillips, Young, Dahl, Kymlicka, Parekh, Walzer, Hayek, Habermas, Scruton and Mouffe
• With a general introduction to guide you through democracy's historical complexity and current areas of controversy and an extensive bibliography that follows the same structure as the text to help you deepen your study

New for this edition

• Substantially updated to reflect the changing circumstances of democracy in our modern, interconnected and conflict-ridden world
• Contains a new introduction and 29 new readings published since the first edition
• New sections on globalisation, religion, information technology and violence