Democracy against itself : sustaining an unsustainable idea /
By their very nature, all democracies have the potential to destroy themselves. But this fact is too rarely documented by acolytles of the system. In the decades since Joseph Goebbels, then Reich Minister of Propaganda, reminded the world that it 'will always remain one of the best jokes of dem...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Introduction; 1 Democracy Against Itself; 2 Democracy in Athens: Autonomy, Tragedy and Decline; 3 Democide in Weimar: Militant Democracy and the Paradox of Self-Defence; 4 The Coming Authoritarianism: The State of America's Democracy; 5 China's New Authoritarianism: A Glimpse at Our Post-Democratic Future?; 6 Occupy Democracy: Democracy Against Itself and the Global Occupy Movement; Bibliography; Index.