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... Chapter Five The Emergence of Democracy........................ 46 Chapter Six On the Inefficiency of Hierarchies ......................59 Chapter Seven The Cult of personality .................................70 Chapter Eight Rubber Stamp ...
... Chapter Five The Emergence of Democracy........................ 46 Chapter Six On the Inefficiency of Hierarchies ......................59 Chapter Seven The Cult of personality .................................70 Chapter Eight Rubber Stamp ...
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... democracy, the importance of which can hardly be overemphasised. On the face of it, representative democracy was a huge improvement on previous methods of organising society. In contrast to earlier regimes where total power was ...
... democracy, the importance of which can hardly be overemphasised. On the face of it, representative democracy was a huge improvement on previous methods of organising society. In contrast to earlier regimes where total power was ...
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... democracy, the cost of a thoroughgoing democracy involves giving up our predisposition for heroworship. This is not so easy a ... democratic phenomenon, the cult of personality, has taken a strong hold everywhere. The choice of a strong ...
... democracy, the cost of a thoroughgoing democracy involves giving up our predisposition for heroworship. This is not so easy a ... democratic phenomenon, the cult of personality, has taken a strong hold everywhere. The choice of a strong ...
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... democratic enough! Certainly the idea of an autocratic leader capable of taking the nation to war single-handedly was far from the original conception when the New World rejected notions of hierarchic society and boldly declared that ...
... democratic enough! Certainly the idea of an autocratic leader capable of taking the nation to war single-handedly was far from the original conception when the New World rejected notions of hierarchic society and boldly declared that ...
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... democratic society such as has already been described with unsurpassed clarity by the English philosopher Tom Paine in Rights of Man. The pure democracy suggested was never completely realised in practice then, and modern democracies ...
... democratic society such as has already been described with unsurpassed clarity by the English philosopher Tom Paine in Rights of Man. The pure democracy suggested was never completely realised in practice then, and modern democracies ...
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