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Democracy's Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama
Democracy's Dangers Discontents The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama
Author: Bruce S. Thornton
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 Democracy?s Dangers & Discontents, Br...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780817917944
ISBN-10: 0817917942
Publication Date: 7/1/2014
Pages: 184
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Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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