
Forms of Government and the Rise of Democracy
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Primitive Government to the End of the Middle Ages
- Primitive Government
- Agricultural Society
- The Spread of Civilization
- Classical Greece
- The Minoans
- The City-State
- Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy
- Rome
- The Roman Republic
- The Roman Empire
- The Middle Ages
- Dissolution and Instability
- Feudalism
- The Rise of Law and the Nation-State
- Chapter 2 Early Modern Government to the End of the 19th Century
- The Rise and Fall of Absolute Monarchy
- Representation and Constitutional Monarchy
- Whigs and Tories
- The American and French Revolutions
- Nationalism and Imperialism
- Chapter 3 Government in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Communism and Fascism
- Leninism
- Liberal Democracy
- Chapter 4 Nondemocratic Forms of Government
- Monarchy
- Functions of Monarchies
- Premodern Monarchies
- Monarchy in the Modern Era
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Aristocracy, Oligarchy, and Dictatorship
- Aristocracy
- Oligarchy
- Dictatorship
- Totalitarianism
- Chapter 5 Prehistoric Democracy to the Italian Republics
- Fundamental Problems of Democracy
- Prehistoric Forms of Democracy
- Classical Greece
- The Roman Republic
- The Roman Senate
- The Italian Republics from the 12th Century to the Renaissance
- Constitutional Oligarchies
- A Democratic Dilemma
- Chapter 6 European and American Democracy to the End of the 19th Century
- Continental Europe
- England
- The United States
- The Constitutional Convention
- Democracy or Republic?
- Solving the Dilemma
- New Answers to Old Questions
- Suffrage
- Factions and Parties
- Majority Rule, Minority Rights, Majority Tyranny
- Chapter 7 Democracy in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- Failures of Nondemocratic Systems
- Market Economies
- Economic Well-Being
- Political Culture
- Contemporary Democratic Systems
- Presidential and Parliamentary Systems
- Unitary and Federal Systems
- Proportional and Winner-Take-All Systems
- Two-Party and Multiparty Systems
- Majoritarian and Consensual Systems
- Contemporary Challenges
- Inequality of Resources
- Immigration
- Terrorism
- The September 11 Attacks
- International Systems
- Chapter 8 The Theory of Democracy from Pericles to Rawls
- Pericles
- Aristotle
- John Locke
- The Legitimacy of Government
- Answers to Fundamental Questions
- Montesquieu
- David Hume
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Stuart Mill
- Utilitarianism
- John Dewey
- Jürgen Habermas
- John Rawls
- Chapter 9 The Value of Democracy
- Ideal Democracy
- Features of Ideal Democracy
- Ideal and Representative Democracy
- Freedom of Speech
- Actual Democracies
- Advantages of Democracy
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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