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Can Democracy Work?

A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Athens to Our World

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Can Democracy Work?

A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Athens to Our World

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Democracy is invoked to support the vast majority of the world's governments. We have been talking about it for thousands of years, and attempting to put it into practice for hundreds, believing in it as the logical culmination of human affairs. But if both North Korea and the United States consider themselves democratic – and, indeed, both liberals and conservatives, capitalists and communists, bureaucrats and populists – isn't the idea meaningless?


This is the biography of one of the world's most powerful ideas, a belief in the value of the collective, a battle between abstract rights and passionate convictions. In the end, only its citizens can decide on its fate.

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Published 01 Dec 2018
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9781786074027
Imprint Oneworld
Dimensions 234 x 153 mm
Publisher Oneworld Publications Ltd

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James Miller

James Miller is Professor of Politics and Liberal…

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