Adventures in democracy : the turbulent world of people power
Benner, Erica2024
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Click and Collect for Adventures in democracy : the turbulent world of people powerIn 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. Probing myths of heroic triumph over tyranny and inexorable progress towards equality, she reveals the vulnerabilities of people power, inviting us to consider why democracy is worth fighting for and the role each citizen must play.
Adventures in democracy : the turbulent world of people power / Erica Benner.
Benner, Erica, author
[London] : Allen Lane, 2024.©2024
xii, 203 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-[204]).
9780241609750 (hbk)9780241609750
321.8
English
557795
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | BEN | Available |
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