Modern Democracy
What's Wrong With Democracy?
Fifth-century Athens is praised as the cradle of democracy and sometimes treated as a potential model for modern political theory or practice. In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the United States today, Loren J.
What Would Jefferson Do?
When the Founding Fathers were searching for the best and fairest form of government, they studied the models of Athenian democracy, the Roman republic, and the Iroquois Confederacy and created what is now called a modern liberal democracy.
Inclusion, Participation and Democracy
It contains a collection of papers from scholars who provide fresh insights into the goals and ambitions for inclusion, participation and democracy and how these might be realized in the modern world.
Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens
A study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way in which the telling of lies was a problem for the world's first democracy and compares this problem with the modern Western situation.
The Primacy of Politics
Examines the history of social democracy from the late nineteenth century to today.
The Dark Side of Democracy
The Dark Side of Democracy is the most comprehensive study of ethnic cleansing across the world, giving in-depth coverage of terrible cases like Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contem