The Liberal Model and Africa: Elites Against Democracy

by Kenneth Good

This book critically examines the realities of liberal democracy: its elitism and non-accountability; and its inequalities and injustices. Participatory systems and movements, whether in Athens, seventeenth and nineteenth-century England, or South Africa 1970-90, are more effective in satisfying the democratic aspirations of the people and in curtailing ambitious elites than what is passed off now as 'democracy.'By interrogating contemporary democratic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333790421
• ISBN13: 9780333790427
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"