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Although the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twenty-first has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government throughout the world.<p>Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theorist Ralph Ketcham traces the evolution of this idea over the course of four hundred years. He traces democracy's bumpy ride in a book that is both an exercise in the history of ideas and an explication of democratic theory.</p><p>Ketcham examines the rationales for democratic government, identifies the fault lines that separate democracy from good government, and suggests ways to strengthen it in order to meet future challenges. Drawing on an encyclopedic command of history and politics, he examines the rationales that have been offered for democratic government over the course of four manifestations of modernity that he identifies in the Western and East Asian world since 1600.</p><p>Ketcham first considers the fundamental axioms established by theorists of the Enlightenment-Bacon, Locke, Jefferson-and reflected in America's founding, then moves on to the mostly post-Darwinian critiqu

Who reads The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era?

Author

Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-2017.

Publisher

University Press of Kansas, c2004.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700631599

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social_sciences