What's wrong with democracy? : from Athenian practice to American worship /

In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Samons, Loren J., II
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pptc6
الوصف
الملخص:In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (1 volume)
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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