The idea of democracy in the modern era /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2004.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Democracy > United States.
Democracy > East Asia.
Political science.
Democracy > Southeast Asia.
Democracy
Démocratie.
Démocratie > États-Unis.
Démocratie > Asie du Sud-Est.
Science politique.
democracy.
political science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Demokratie
Politisches Denken
Democratie.
Politisches Denken.
Demokratie.
Southeast Asia.
East Asia.
United States.
Ostasien
USA
Ostasien.
USA.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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