Democracy: The unfinished journey, 508 BC to AD 1993

The book explains how a casual practical solution to local Greek political difficulties so very long ago has come to stand virtually unchallenged as the ground for modern political authority. It shows how the idea of democracy has kept its power in a world which is utterly different from the world o...

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Được phát hành: Oxford, New York Oxford Univ 1992
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