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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thornton, Bruce S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, [2014]
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