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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מחבר ראשי: Samons, Loren J., II
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pptc6
תוכן הענינים:
  • Introduction
  • Athenian society and government
  • Democracy and demagogues : election, voting, and qualifications for citizenship
  • Public finance : democracy and the people's purse
  • Foreign policy I : democracy imperial
  • Foreign policy II : the Peloponnesian War
  • National defense : democracy defeated
  • Democracy and religion
  • Conclusion : Socrates, Pericles, and the citizen.