Democracy: the unfinished journey, 508 BC to AD 1993 / edited by John Dunn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunn, John, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--History.

Democracy.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

With corrections.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index.

ISBN:

0198279345

OCLC:

187474279