Book
Can democracy work? : a short history of a radical idea, from ancient Athens to our world / James Miller.
"Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In [this book], James Miller, author of the classic history of 1960s protest "Democracy Is in the Streets", offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present."--Dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374137649
- ISBN: 0374137641
- Physical Description: ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2018.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-286) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prelude: What is democracy? -- A closed community of self-governing citizens -- A revolutionary assertion of popular sovereignty -- A commercial republic of free individuals -- A struggle for political and social equality -- A hall of mirrors -- Coda: Who are we? |
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| Subject: | Democracy > History. Democracy > Philosophy. |
