Democracy [electronic resource] : a short, analytical history / Roland N. Stromberg.
This text sums up the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation. It defines the term and notes the confusions in it, and its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records criticisms, and is especially concerned with the conditions that are neccessary for it to exist. Thi...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Democracy |h [electronic resource] : |b a short, analytical history / |c Roland N. Stromberg. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 Defining Democracy; The Word and Its Usage; Confusion with Other Ideas; Different Kinds of Democracy; Preparations for Pluralism; Chapter 2 Democracy's Classical Image; Classical Republicanism; Enlightenment Rationalism as Antidemocratic; The French Revolution; The Skeptical Basis of Democracy; Chapter 3 Democracy's Nineteenth-Century Advance; The Feeling of Inevitability; Continuing Criticism of Democracy; Democracy and Progress; The Revolutions of 1848; Chapter 4 The Late Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Democracy. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Practical SuccessesThe Secession of the Intellectuals; Science versus Democracy; Sociologists and Democracy; Socialism and Democracy; Chapter 5 The Continuing Crisis of Democracy; End-of-Century Disenchantment; Totalitarian Anticipations; World War I and Democracy; Chapter 6 Democracy at Bay between the World Wars; Aftermath of the Great Crusade; Fascism and Nazism; Communism and Democracy; Other Democratic Failures; Foreign Policy and the Coming of War; Chapter 7 World War II and After: Democracy in Low Key; Democracy in World War II; Democracy in Low Key; Power Elites and the New Left. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Postmodernist DemocracyChapter 8 Democracy in the Contemporary World; Democracy in a World Setting; Democratic Preconditions; Democracy in the Late Twentieth-Century World; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Perennial Criticisms; The Two Democracies; A Third Democracy?; Democracy as Halfway House; Democracy's Future; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. | |
| 520 | |a This text sums up the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation. It defines the term and notes the confusions in it, and its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records criticisms, and is especially concerned with the conditions that are neccessary for it to exist. This encompasses a comprehensive literature which the author seeks to summarise and present to the reader in accessible form. It is appropriate material for course reading in Westen civilisation, intellectual history, political thought, and philosophy. | ||
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