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

by Bruce S. Thornton

Book Overview

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 democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817917942
• ISBN13: 9780817917944
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"