Democracy: A Guided Tour Brennan Jason
Democracy: A Guided Tour Brennan Jason How did "democracy" go from a pejorative label for mob rule to the widely shared ideal of enlightened self-rule? How have the ways democracy has been practiced…
Specifikacia Democracy: A Guided Tour Brennan Jason
Democracy: A Guided Tour Brennan Jason
How did "democracy" go from a pejorative label for mob rule to the widely shared ideal of enlightened self-rule? How have the ways democracy has been practiced impacted the idea of democracy itself? How has it evolved as an idea and a set of practices?
This will open up rich and perplexing questions. In this short, accessible book, leading democratic theorist Jason Brennan guides readers through the evolution of the concept of democracy and actual democratic practice over time to help them understand the foundations of this longstanding and yet newly fragile political system.In his wide-ranging tour of the concept, Brennan will examine what democracy meant to the Greeks who first developed the concept before examining how it changed throughout European and later Western history. Over time, democracy shifted from being a fringe idea to the gold standard of political institutions: