Can democracy work?: a short history of a radical idea from ancient Athens to our world
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| adam_text | CONTENTS PRELUDE: WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? З The riddle posed, and some answers explored, in five historical essays ONE. A CLOSED COMMINITI OF SELF-GOVERNING CITIZENS 19 The strangeness of Greek democracy aristocratic self-rule III III the Athenian uprising of 508 B.c. extends political power to ordinary citizens III III Plato’s critique of democracy: knowledge vs. opinion democracy actually worked in the fourth century B.c. III III Pericles as Thucydides describes the Athenian democracy at war III Athenian democracy, and Hannah Arendt’s idealized view of it decay and eclipse Cleisthenes the first appearance of the word III excluding others: Athenian autochthony III exemplary demagogue Ill the use of political lotteries, rather III than elections, to select officers in Athens demokratia Solon sets Athens on a path toward the resilience of III how Athenian classical democracy in Ill the sublime value of unity, and the martial virtues as constitutive of the ideal democratic citizen TWO, λ REV0LĽT10XARY ASSERTION OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY 53 Radical democrats seize power in Paris Rousseau monarchy III Republican thought, from Polybius to the journée of August 10,1792 first calls for a democratic constitution III III the French Revolution, from the fall of the Bastille to the fall of the III III a carnival of atrocities III drafting the world’s first democratic constitution III the debate over Condorcet’s democratic constitution doubts about the wisdom of direct democracy “representative democracy” III III Condorcet in the French Convention 111 Robespierre, Marat, and III the Terror,
and fresh the appearance of a new idea, the retreat of democratic ideals in France the human toll III
viil THREE. I CONTENTS A COMMERCIAL 1ШЧЈИ1.К OF Fit Eli IMIIVIIII ALS 91 American distrust of popular passions; the tempering influence of commerce in eighteenth-century America III Declaration of Independence during the revolutionary era 1776: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the the ambiguous place of democracy in America III III modern democracy from France to America: the democratic-republican societies of the 1790s commercial democracy III III the American dream of a America’s first great demagogue, Andrew Jackson Tocqueville celebrates the Fourth of July in Albany, New York, 1831 Tocqueville on democracy as an egalitarian form of life over the right to vote in Rhode Island, 1842 III III the strange insurrection III Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady III Stanton, and the American struggle over the franchise III demotic culture in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, minstrelsy III Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas and the fantasy of a democracy still to come FOUR. A STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL EQUALITY 133 The Chartists and the London Democratic Association; the first Chartist Convention and first Chartist petition, 1839 Karl Marx’s ambivalence about democracy; III communism as the realization of individual freedom and social equality III conflict as the paradoxical essence of nascent modern democratic societies Mazzini and his democratic faith in cosmopolitan nationalism Commune of 1871 ill the Commune as revolutionary icon III revolutionary self-government ill 111 the Paris III the rise of mass political parties; the case of the German Social
Democratic Party general strike of 1905 and the St. Petersburg soviet III the Russian III Rosa Luxemburg on Robert Michels and Max Weber debate democracy vs. domination as the key categories for modern social thought; the “iron law of oligarchy” ill disenchanted democracy at the dawn of the twentieth century FIVE. A HALL OF MIRRORS 173 What Woodrow Wilson meant by democracy in proposing a world “made safe for democracy”; his 1885 manuscript “The Modern Democratic State” III Wilson as president; the Great War as a crusade to promote liberal democracy III Russia in revolution III the improvisatory democracy of the Petrograd soviet Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power through Russia’s soviets III III existential conflict over the meaning of democracy: Wilsonian liberalism vs. Leninist communism; the Versailles Peace Treaty and the League of Nations III
CONTENTS I к the Guild Socialism of G.D.H. Coles a vision of democratic socialism for an industrial society informed public III Walter Lippmann on the psychological limits to an III John Dewey and the persistence of the democratic faith III Edward Bernays and the value of propaganda III survey research and public opinion polling as “rule of the politician” III III George Gallup and the rise of Joseph Schumpeter on democracy the cruel game of modern politics: sham democracies vs. democracy as a universal ideal, solemnized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 .CODA: WIIO ABE WE? 213 Manhattan, January 2017, protesting the election of Donald Trump: “This is what democracy looks like”; hut a democratic process also elected President Trump III when President Barack Obama said, “That’s not who we are,” who are “we”? Ill “There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide” III global democratization from an elite perspective: the life and times of Samuel P. Huntington III “Democracy is in the streets”: the return of participatory democracy in 2011; Occupy Wall Street direct democratic programme of the postwar global left problems with the III III protecting pluralism in a framework of liberal rights the only viable approach to realizing a modern democracy III at gunpoint III Condoleezza Rice keeps the American faith: exporting democracy measuring the advance and retreat of democracy worldwide as a form of government: the Freedom House index, The Economist’s Democracy Index, and the United Nations Human Development Index democracy today as an ideology and
ideal III III challenges to Václav Havel on the dangers of political demoralization faced with the challenges of self-government III upholding Abraham Lincoln’s conception of democratic hope NOTES 247 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 283 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 287 INDEX 289
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