Despotic state or free individual?
Subtitle: two traditions of democracy in Australia
By: Greg Melleuish
Publisher: Australian Scholarly
Published: 2014
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781925003833
Subjects: Democracy; History; Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Democracy and its meanings; title: Democratisation in Australia; title: Mixed government and democracy in colonial Australia; title: Democratic trajectories; title: David Syme, Charles H. Pearson and the birth of democratic despotism; title: Bruce Smith, Edward Shann, W.K. Hancock : the economic critique of democracy in Australia; title: V.G. Childe and democracy; title: Beyond democratic despotism?