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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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2004.
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pptc6 |
Агуулга:
- 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.