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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820096103321

Autore

Thornton Bruce S.

Titolo

Democracy's dangers and discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama / / Bruce S. Thornton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8179-1798-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution press publication  Democracy's dangers & discontents

Disciplina

321.809049

Soggetti

Democracy - 20th century

Democracy - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 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; Bibliography; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>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 <I>Democracy's Dangers & Discontents</I>, 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 evolved into something sim