Democracy a very short introduction - Crick, Bernard (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
This is a short history of the doctrine and practice of democracy, and of the usages and practices associated with it in the modern world. It argues that democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for good government, and that ideas of the rule of law, and of human rights, should in some situations limit democratic claims
Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1 The word and the deed; 2 The place from where we started; 3 Republicanism and democracy; 4 Comme disait M. de Tocqueville; 5 Democracy and populism; 6 The conditions of modern democracy; 7 Democratic citizenship; Further reading; Index