Democracy's Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama by Bruce S. Thornton

Democracy's Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama

Hoover Institution Press Publication (Hardcover)

Bruce S. Thornton

191 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
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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 de...

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