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History of Society and Democracy

其他書名	Before New Epoch: Classical Democracy in Ancient Athens
出版	Independently Published, 2019-09-28
主題	History / Ancient / General
ISBN	16962383079781696238304
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JVVWygEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Democracy is the most complex and polysemantic type of political regime in the forms of implementation. Debates have not ceased about the meaning of the term "democracy" for seven centuries, since 1260, when the word was first used in the translation of Aristotelian "Politics".The term "democracy" has become the most common in political science since antiquity when it originated and denoted "power of the people". However, the mass use of the term did not leave behind it a certain unambiguous content. Until now, political science has not developed generally accepted ideas allowing us to formulate a clear definition of democracy. Various authors focus attention on the individual components of democracy, for example, the power of the majority, its limitation and control over it, the fundamental rights of citizens, the legal and social statehood, finally, the separation of powers, general elections, transparency, competition of different opinions and positions, pluralism, equality, participation.Differences in the interpretation of democracy, as well as differences in the mechanisms of its implementation in specific societies, due to the lack of unity of methodological principles of its analysis. In the first case, from the point of view of the normative approach, an ideal model of democratic governance corresponding to the mentality of the population, its ideas of fair governance are formed. However, real conditions adapt the ideal model of democratic governance to the demands of practice. In the second case, from the standpoint of empirical descriptive approach, democracy turns out to be a set of principles, procedures and political structures that found their effectiveness in the implementation of social and individual needs and goals.In the first series of 7 books, having common name "History of Society and Democracy: Before New Epoch", it will be paid special attention to the origin and formation of political and republican democracy in ancient civilizations, especially in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and up to the 18th century, when democracy acquired a new shape, which have been preserved until present days and became the basis of modern democratic society.There is short analysis of forming of classical democracy in Ancient Greece, historical view of democratic form of self-government and thoughts of Greek philosophers about democracy in this second book of the series.The first series is being published during October-December until the end of 2019. The second series of books will be published in the spring of 2020 and the third series will be waited in the summer of 2020.The series of books about the history of democracy's evolution can be interest to the specialists in the social history, the students of profile departments and all people who have interest in the history of society and its transformations."