Democracy's dangers & discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama /

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 eq...

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Main Authors: Thornton, Bruce S, Thornton, Bruce S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2014]
Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2014
Stanford, California : [2014]
Series:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 653
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