num_pages: 120
description: The author traces the background of current liberal-democratic theory, explains how the concept of democracy became both embedded in the shifting ideas of social equality and increasingly dependent on the mechanism of capitalism, and points the way to a more participatory democracy.
language: English
title: The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
titlecomplete: The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
genres: Political Science, Politics, History, Philosophy, Academic, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 90
publisher: Oxford University Press