Thornton, Bruce S. <br/><br/>
Democracy's dangers & discontents :  the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama / 
 Democracy's dangers and discontents  Tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama 
Bruce S. Thornton. 
 - xii, 191 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Hoover Institution press publication ;  no. 653 .
 - Hoover Institution Press publication ;  653. .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0817917942 9780817917944 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015509169 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016950631  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy.<br/>Democracy.<br/>Demokrati.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC423  / .T448 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>321.8