Democracy by John Dunn
2500 years ago the small Greek city state of Athens invented a new form of political regime. This book explains how a casual practical solution to local Greek political difficulties so very long ago has come to stand virtually unchallenged as the ground for modern political authority. It shows how the idea of democracy has kept its power in a world which is utterly different from the world of classical Greece and how the questions which the Greeks first raised about the meaning of democratic rule still loom over human political and economic institutions in a setting in which no modern population can ever rule in practice, day by day, as the Athenian demos ruled. By viewing its history across this great arc of time, the book shows why democracy today has both the power and the vulnerability which make it the key to understanding politics; and it explains why it has triumphed so decisively in the modern world.About the Authors:
John Dunn is a Fellow of King's College and Professor of Political Theory at Cambridge University.
J.O. Urmson is an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University, and an Emeritus Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.
A.J. Ayer was Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198273783 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198273789 |
| Title | Democracy |
| Author | John Dunn |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1992-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
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