The Decline and Rise of Democracy : A Global History from Antiquity to Today /
Many historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. Democracy has been an experiment that has unfolded over time and across the world-and its transformation is ongoing. This book draws from global evidence to show that the story is much riche...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Origins of democratic rule
- Early democracy was widespread
- Weak states inherited democracy
- When technology undermined democracy
- The development of representation in Europe
- China as the bureaucratic alternative
- How democracy disappeared in the Islamic world
- Democracy and economic development over the long run
- Why England was different
- Democracy-and slavery-in America
- The spread of modern democracy
- The ongoing democratic experiment.