Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

Author: James Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether we can actually govern ourselves. --David Blight, The Guardian A new history of the world's most embattled idea Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become...Read more