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A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutions Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They

Given the almost universal assumption that democracy is a 'good thing', the goal of mankind, it is easy to forget that 'rule by the people' has been vehemently

This first examination in almost forty years of political ideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches some surprising conclusions about the histo

From a historical and cross-cultural perspective it cannot be denied that most democracies failed. Only western democracies for a short while -- from the fall o

The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsi