Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Political Science Democracy

Democracy on Trial

by (author) Jean Bethke Elshtain

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Nov 1993
Category
Democracy, Human Rights, Political
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887848544
    Publish Date
    Nov 1993
    List Price
    $16.95

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

Is democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes - yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality. In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.

About the author

Jean Bethke Elshtain was Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University.

Jean Bethke Elshtain's profile page