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Author Ketcham, Ralph Louis, 1927-2017.

Title The idea of democracy in the modern era / Ralph Ketcham.

Imprint Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2004.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  321.8 K493i 2004    ---  Available
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.
Democracy -- East Asia.
Political science.
ISBN 070061334X (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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