Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.