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Demokrasi disi rejimler kötü durumdadir ancak daha ölmemistir. Zaman icinde dünyanin giderek daha demokratiklesecegini düsünmek icin yeterli sebepler vardir ama Martin Luther King Jr.nin bir zamanlar söylemis oldugu üzere tarihin cizgisinin her zaman adalete meyledecegine bilimsel bir kesinlikle inanmak mümkün degildir. Siyasi liderler ve elitler, iktidari tek elde toplamanin ve devleti kontrol etme mücadelesinin zemininin kosullarini agirlast...

The Statesman is a difficult and puzzling Platonic dialogue. In A Stranger's Knowledge Marquez argues that Plato abandons here the classic idea, prominent in the Republic, that the philosopher, qua philosopher, is qualified to rule. Instead, the dialogue presents the statesman as different from the philosopher, the possessor of a specialist expertise that cannot be reduced to philosophy.

This collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment. Going beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in ancient Athens and its climax in the French and American revolutions, this book recovers some of the significant body of democratic and anti-democratic thought in Latin America, Asia, an...

Since the nineteenth century, there has been a slow transformation in the nature of the norms that regulate political competition and the uses of state power. Monarchies whose legitimating principles appealed to divine sanction have steadily given way to republican regimes normatively grounded in appeals to 'the people.' Ideals of liberty, equality and solidarity have gained ground relative to ideals of hierarchy and dependence. Yet while in s...