Name: Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, From Ancient Athens to our World (en Inglés)
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Author: Miller, James
ISBN: 9781250234674

portada Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, From Ancient Athens to our World (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

James Miller

Editorial

St. Martins Press-3PL

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.1 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781250234674

Categorías

Ciencias políticas
La democracia
Historia general y del mundo

Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, From Ancient Athens to our World (en Inglés)

James Miller (Autor) · St. Martins Press-3PL · Tapa Blanda

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"Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether we can actually govern ourselves." --David Blight, The GuardianA new history of the world's most embattled idea Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. The ancient Greeks preferred to choose leaders by lottery and regarded elections as inherently corrupt and undemocratic. The French revolutionaries sought to incarnate the popular will, but many of them came to see the people as the enemy. And in the United States, the franchise would be extended to some even as it was taken from others. Amid the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century, communists, liberals, and nationalists all sought to claim the ideals of democracy for themselves--even as they manifestly failed to realize them. Ranging from the theaters of Athens to the tents of Occupy Wall Street, Can Democracy Work? is an entertaining and insightful guide to our most cherished--and vexed--ideal.