Deomcracy
Subtitle: History, Theory, Practice
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780813332284
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / Democracy; Democracy
First sentence: At the turn of the fourth century B.C., after a democratic counter-revolution had dislodged the Athenian oligarchy known as "The Thirty," the philosopher Plato repented his earlier disdain for the democratic constitution.