Description |
viii, 302 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-287) and index. |
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 Bethan 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. |
Subject |
Democracy.
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Democracy -- East Asia.
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Political science.
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ISBN |
070061334X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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