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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces the historical process by which the Republic of the founders has evolve |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index Foreword / Victor Davis Hanson -- Introduction: The Triumph of Democracy and the Antidemocratic Tradition -- 1. The Monitory Failures of Athenian Democracy -- 2. The Antidemocratic Tradition and the American Founding -- 3. Democracy and Leviathan -- Conclusion: Restoring Limited Government |
| Umfang: | XII, 191 S. 24 cm |
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