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Last Vote. The Threats to Western Democracy

Door Philip Coggan

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#269950
Titel	Last Vote. The Threats to Western Democracy
Auteur	Coggan, Philip
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Jaar van uitgave	2013
ISBN10	1846146895
ISBN13	9781846146893
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Can we afford to take democracy for granted? It's now so much a part of our lives that we could be forgiven for thinking it mainly takes care of itself. Almost half the world's population now lives in a democratic state, while some Western democracies have now had universal suffrage for almost a century, through even the most severe of global upheavals. In The Last Vote, Philip Coggan shows how democracy today faces threats that we ignore at our own risk. Amid the turmoil of the financial crisis, high debt levels, and an ever-growing gap between the richest and the rest, it is easy to forget that the ultimate victim could be our democracy itself. Tracing democracy's history and development, from the classical world through the revolution of the Enlightenment and on to today, Coggan revi... (Lees verder)sits the assumptions on which it is founded. What exactly is democracy? Why should we value it? What are its flaws? And could we do any better? The Last Vote is a wake-up call, and an illuminating defence of a system, which, in Churchill's words, is the worst possible form of government, except for all the others. He proposes ideas for change and improvement to the system itself so the next vote we cast will not be the last.
Pagina's	305
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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