Democracy Without Borders?: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy

by Marc F. Plattner

Book Overview

Democracy Without Borders? assesses the worldwide prospects of liberal democracy. In an era of globalization and in an intellectual climate in which the idea of national sovereignty is under assault, Plattner identifies the essential features of modern liberal democracy and offers guidance about what is required to sustain it. An investigation of the complex and tension-filled relationship between liberalism and majority rule is at the heart of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742559262
• ISBN13: 9780742559264
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"