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Simon & Schuster UK, June 2009
eBook, 992 pages
ISBN-10: 1847377602
ISBN-13: 9781847377609
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The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: how did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps?
Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy.
Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy.
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The Scotsman, December 2, 2009
...expenses scandal has eroded trust in the politicians who lead us, the question to be posed by Professor John Keane this weekend looks increasingly mainstream. His lecture at Dundee University will draw on themes raised in his latest book, ...
Abu Dhabi National, October 15, 2009
...invention. But this important revision, John Gray argues, does not add up to an argument for its necessityThe Life and Death of Democracy John Keane Simon & Schuster Dh174Writing in 1908, the German thinker Max Weber, one of the founding ...
Camden New Journal, July 23, 2009
...John Keane?s new book tells the story of democracy ? from the racy myth of its origins in Ancient Greece to the shifting model of the post-war world order, writes ...
