Adventures in democracy : the turbulent world of people power
Benner, Erica2025
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In a hyper-competitive world obsessed with rankings, super-wealth and greatness, how can we live up to democratic ideals of equality? Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about these questions from different angles in different countries - from post-war Japan, where democracy was imposed on a defeated country, to post-communist Poland, with sudden gaps of wealth and security, and the US and South Africa with their legacies of slavery and racism. 'Adventures in Democracy' draws on her experiences and the deep history of democracies - in ancient Rome and Athens, the American and French revolutions and Renaissance Florence - to offer an unflinching portrait of modern democracy. To salvage democratic institutions and ideals, Benner argues, we need to pay more attention to inequalities and struggles for power among citizens.
Main title:
Adventures in democracy : the turbulent world of people power / Erica Benner.
Author:
Benner, Erica, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2025.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781802061444 (pbk)
Dewey class:
321.8321.8 BEN
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3924681