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Democracy's dangers & discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama /
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 eq...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Hoover Institution Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Triumph of Democracy and the Antidemocratic Tradition; 1 The Monitory Failures of Athenian Democracy; 2 The Antidemocratic Tradition and the American Founding; 3 Democracy and Leviathan; Conclusion: Restoring Limited Government; Bibliography; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict; Index.