ABSTRACT
Summarising the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation, this text defines the term and looks at its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records criticisms, and is especially concerned with the conditions that are necessary for democracy to exist.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|57 pages
A theoretical paradigm
part 2|26 pages
Ethical-political dimensions
part 3|40 pages
Implementation: two examples
part 4|31 pages
Consequences for future thinking and action
