The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy

The author traces the background of current liberal-democratic theory, explains how the concept of democracy became both embedded in the shifting ideas of social equality and increasingly dependent on the mechanism of capitalism, and points the way to a more participatory democracy.

• Author
• Crawford Brough Macpherson

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 120

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780192891068

• Genres
• politics, academic, philosophy, theory

• Release date
• 1978