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Democracy & Its Justification

A topic within Social & Political Philosophy, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

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Book1835

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

Argues, from his travels in Jacksonian America, that equality of conditions is the coming force in the modern world, and asks what habits and institutions keep the democracy it produces from collapsing into either anarchy or a new despotism.

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Book1942

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Schumpeter

Redefines democracy not as rule by the people but as a competitive struggle among elites for the people's vote, arguing that classical theories of a common good and popular will are myths.

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