Democracy and Its Critics: Anglo-American Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century
In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement about what democracy is and why it is important.
In this work, the American political theorist closely analyzes the democratic political system and then evaluates whether the arguments that are in favor of it are, in fact, rigorous. ¶Dahl sets out to describe democracy’s merits and ...
Before the publication of Nature's Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, following separate lines of development and maturity.
In this accesible and informative text, Jon Roper introduces the reader to arguments for and against criticisms of the concept of democracy.