What's wrong with democracy? [electronic resource] : from Athenian practice to American worship

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서명/저자사항	What's wrong with democracy? [electronic resource]: from Athenian practice to American worship / Loren J. Samons II.
개인저자	Samons, Loren J.
발행사항	Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004.
형태사항	1 online resource (1 v.).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Samons, Loren J. What's wrong with democracy?. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004 0520236602
ISBN	9780520940901 (electronic bk.) 0520940903 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction -- Athenian society and government -- Democracy and demagogues : election, voting, and qualifications for citizenship -- Public finance : democracy and the people's purse -- Foreign policy I : democracy imperial -- Foreign policy II : the Peloponnesian War -- National defense : democracy defeated -- Democracy and religion -- Conclusion : Socrates, Pericles, and the citizen.
요약	In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration.
주제명(지명)	Republicanism --History. --United States United States --Civilization --Greek influences.
일반주제명	Democracy --History. Direct democracy --Greece --Athens. Representative government and representation --United States. Political culture --United States --History. POLITICAL SCIENCE --Political Ideologies --Democracy.
분류기호(DDC)	321.8
언어	영어
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