David Held
Autore di Modelli della democrazia
Sull'Autore
David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science
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Opere di David Held
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Held, David
- Data di nascita
- 1951-08-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Istruzione
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manchester University - Attività lavorative
- political theorist
college master - Organizzazioni
- University College, Durham
Durham University
Polity Press
Civitatis International
London School of Economics and Political Science
Open University (mostra tutto 7)
University of York
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- Opere
- 41
- Utenti
- 1,289
- Popolarità
- #19,897
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 143
- Lingue
- 9
The book takes a look at democracy from its inception, at the hands of the Greek people, to the beginning of the 21st century. I expect that, if you are less mean than myself and bought a new edition from a book store, it would be even more up to date.
The first, perhaps unsurprising point, is that the perfect democratic system has yet to be created but, that democracy is the only system that even offers the prospect of a halcyon state. The book looks at both right leaning and leftward attempts at the perfect state. As one would expect of a serious tome, neither is favoured: both get a chance to show their strengths and both reveal their weaknesses.
In the final section of the book, Held offers an insight into the problems to come and, as I have already said, my edition was written in 2002, some 13 years before my ingesting thereof: this means that the predicted trials have started to appear. It is impressive to note how accurately Mr Held has been in spotting them. The final issue brought up, is the question of the need for some form of World Government. We see, at the moment, that the USA is taking the role of the world's policeman; it is time that a multinational alternative was considered.… (altro)