商品簡介
Brings together classical and contemporary arguments about pure democracy versus representative government, the role of elites in a democracy, possibilities for greater popular participation, the relationship between democracy and capitalism, democracy and male domination, and the linkage between majority rule and minority rights.
作者簡介
Philip Green is a political theorist and Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of?Smith College?in Northampton, MA.?An outspoken public intellectual, he is best known for his critiques of American liberal pluralism, beginning with a critique of?American Cold War?strategic policy based on massive nuclear deterrence and first-strike capability, to numerous recent writings about the retreat of representative democracy in the United States. His book?American Democracy: Selected Essays on Theory, Practice and Critique?(2014)?contains a compilation of many of those essays.