What Democracy Is for: On Freedom and Moral Government

by Stein Ringen

Book Overview

In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing. Yet he shows that democracy's freedom is on the decline. Citizens are increasingly distrustful of political systems weighted by money, and they don't participate in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691129843
• ISBN13: 9780691129846
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"