The Life and Death of Democracy

The book answers the questions:

How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? 

It is a classic on the past, present and future of democracy.

958 pages

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