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Machiavellian democracy /

"Highlighting previously neglected democratic strains in Machiavelli's major writings, McCormick excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates, and he imagines how such...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCormick, John P., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: liberty, inequality and popular government
  • Peoples, patricians, and the prince
  • Democratic republics and the oppressive appetite of young nobles
  • The benefits and limits of popular participation and judgment
  • Elections, lotteries and class-specific institutions
  • Political trials and 'the free way of life'
  • Republicanism and democracy
  • Post-electoral republics and the people's tribunate revived.