The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era /

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Main Author: Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prospects for government in 1989
  • Aristotelian and Confucian insights
  • Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750
  • The United States and first modernity democracy
  • The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey
  • Liberal democracy in the twentieth century
  • Second modernity thought in Japan and China
  • An Asian third modernity
  • Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy
  • Comparing rationales for democracy
  • The idea of democracy in the third millennium.