Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger so large in the political imagination in the modern world? Answering this question, this book charts its ... » 

Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger so large in the political imagination in the modern world? Answering this question, this book charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in Ancient Greece to its triumph in the years, since 1945. «