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02691aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 973E6400C90911E78E9D1F6497128E48 003 SILO 005 20171114010107 008 170410t20172017enk e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1786072890 020 $a 9781786072894 035 $a (OCoLC)982093691 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d AUPTL $d UAB $d AUPTL $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d JY2 $d PFLCL $d GUB $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a JC423 $b .G73 2017 082 04 $a 321.8 $2 23 100 1 $a Grayling, A. C., $e author. 245 10 $a Democracy and its crisis / $c A. C. Grayling. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Oneworld, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 225 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index. 520 $a "Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Periclean Athens, the English Civil War, the American and French Revolutions, among them - in which the challenges we face today were first encountered and what solutions, however imperfect, were found. Then he lays bare the specific problems of democracy in the twenty-first century and maps out a set of urgently needed reforms. With the advent of authoritarian leaders and the simultaneous rise of populism, representative democracy appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place, yet it is this space that it must occupy, says Grayling, if a civilized society, that looks after all its people, is to flourish." -- Book jacket. 505 0 $a The history of the dilemma, part I: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli -- The history of the dilemma, part II: the Putney debates, 1647 -- The beginnings of a solution, part I: Locke, Hobbes, Spinoza -- The beginnings of a solution, part II: Montesquieu, Rousseau -- Solution proposed, part I: Madison, Constant -- Solutions proposed, part II: De Tocqueville, Mill -- Alternative democracies and anti-democracies -- Why it has gone wrong -- Making representative government work -- The people and the constitution -- Appendix I: Brexit -- Appendix II: The failure of democracy elsewhere. 650 0 $a Democracy. 650 0 $a Populism. 650 0 $a Two-party systems. 650 0 $a Party affiliation. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214020840.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104061956.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20171202011149.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20171116011412.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=973E6400C90911E78E9D1F6497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search