The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States

• Main Author: Glassman, Ronald M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Political science.; Anthropology.; Cultural studies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319516950
• Physical Description: XCIII, 1737 p. online resource.

This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical context. The dual nature of human...