• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: What's wrong with democracy? : from Athenian practice to American worship
  • Enthält: 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
    IntroductionAthenian 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.
  • Beteiligte: Samons, Loren J. [VerfasserIn]
  • Körperschaft: NetLibrary, Inc
  • Erschienen: Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004
    Boulder, Colo: NetLibrary, 2004
  • Erschienen in: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
  • Umfang: 1 volume
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 141754533X; 9781417545339; 9780520940901; 0520940903
  • Schlagwörter: Griechenland > Demokratie > Rezeption > USA
    Griechenland > Demokratie > Rezeption > USA
  • Reproduktionsreihe: E-Books von NetLibrary
  • Hersteller der Reproduktion: Boulder, Colo: NetLibrary, 2004
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
  • Beschreibung: 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

    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