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Title Statement | Democracy's dangers & discontents: the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama / Bruce S. Thornton. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Democracy's dangers and discontents |
Series | Hoover Institution Press publication |
Author | Thornton, Bruce S |
Publication | Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University,[2014]©2014 |
Extent of Item | xii, 191 pages ; |
ISBN | 0817917942 9780817917944 |
Other Number | 2625609 |
Contents | Foreword / Victor Davis Hanson -- Introduction: the triumph of democracy and the antidemocratic tradition -- The monitory failures of Athenian democracy -- The antidemocratic tradition and the American founding -- Democracy and Leviathan -- Conclusion: restoring limited government. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-176) and index. |
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By Topic | Democracy--History |
Democracy--History--Greece--Athens | |
Democracy--United States | |
By Location | Athens (Greece)--Politics and government |