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

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Thornton, Bruce S. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Democracy > History. Democracy > 21st century. Democracy. History.