TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thornton,Bruce S.
TI  - Democracy's dangers & discontents: the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama 
T2  - Hoover Institution press publication
SN  - 0817917942
AV  - JC423 .T448 2014
U1  - 321.8 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
KW  - Democracy
KW  - fast
KW  - Demokrati
KW  - sao
N1  - 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
N2  - By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces the historical process by which the Republic of the founders has evolved into something similar to ancient democracy, and finally argues for the relevance of those critiques to contemporary American policy
UR  - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2015509169-b.html
UR  - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2015509169-d.html
ER  -