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dc.contributor.authorThornton, Bruce S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T07:21:37Z
dc.date.available2018-04-24T07:21:37Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780817917944en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0817917942en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780817917968en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0817917969en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780817917975en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0817917977en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780817917982en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0817917985en_US
dc.identifier.otherHPU4162287en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://lib.hpu.edu.vn/handle/123456789/30693-
dc.description.abstractBy 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 and 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. 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 and 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.en_US
dc.format.extent209 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHoover Institution Pressen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectDiscontentsen_US
dc.subjectGreeksen_US
dc.subjectObamaen_US
dc.titleDemocracy's dangers and discontents: the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obamaen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.size5.34 MBen_US
dc.departmentSociologyen_US
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