02756nam 2200553 450 991082009610332120230803203321.00-8179-1798-5(CKB)3710000000137405(EBL)1717208(OCoLC)925777218(SSID)ssj0001409295(PQKBManifestationID)11870579(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001409295(PQKBWorkID)11359149(PQKB)11065765(MiAaPQ)EBC1717208(Au-PeEL)EBL1717208(CaPaEBR)ebr10900318(EXLCZ)99371000000013740520140808h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDemocracy's dangers and discontents the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama /Bruce S. ThorntonStanford, California :Hoover Institution Press,2014.©20141 online resource (209 p.)Hoover Institution press publication Democracy's dangers & discontents Description based upon print version of record.0-8179-1794-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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<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 simDemocracy20th centuryDemocracy21st centuryDemocracyDemocracy21st century.321.809049Thornton Bruce S.920524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820096103321Democracy's dangers and discontents3984964UNINA