The idea of democracy in the modern era /
Although the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twentyfirst has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government throughout the world.Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theoris...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prospects for government in 1989
- Aristotelian and Confucian insights
- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750
- The United States and first modernity democracy
- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey
- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century
- Second modernity thought in Japan and China
- An Asian third modernity
- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy
- Comparing rationales for democracy
- The idea of democracy in the third millennium.