Can democracy work? : a short history of a radical idea, from ancient Athens to our world /
James Miller.
- First edition.
- 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-286) and index.
oday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In [this book], James Miller, author of the classic history of 1960s protest "Democracy Is in the Streets", offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present."--Jacket