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Introduction: Mixed Messages in the Twenty-first Century -- Part I. Democracy as a Uniquely Human Political Process -- Chapter 1. Humans in the Scientific State of Nature: The Emergence of the Democratic Discussion Council -- Chapter 2. Democracy and Despotism in Tribal Society: The Clan Council, The Tribal Assembly, The War Chief, The Shaman -- Chapter 3. City-State Democracy in Sumer, Syria, and Canaan-Phoenicia: The Council of City Fathers and the Citizens Assembly -- Chapter 4. Full Fledged Democracy in the City-States of Ancient Greece: Majority Rule at the Citizens Assembly; Constitutional Law; Jury Trials; the Rational-Scientific World-View Emerges -- Chapter 5. The Kingly-Bureaucratic State and the Integration of Large Political Areas: The Divine Kingship Makes Democracy Inconceivable -- Chapter 6. Democracy Revived in the City-States of Renaissance Italy: Oligarchy Overrides Democracy -- Chapter 7. The Northern European City-States Unite in Leagues: Representative Democracy Becomes Institutionalized in Switzerland, The Netherlands, and England -- Chapter 8. The Rational-Scientific World-View After the Protestant Reformation: Science and Legal-Rational Authority -- Part II. Democracy in the Modern World -- Chapter 9. Free Market Capitalism Undergirds City-States and Nation-State Democracy: Contract Law Reinforces Legal Authority -- Chapter 10. Four Ways Free Market Capitalism Reinforces Legal-Rational Democracy -- Chapter 11. Case Studies of Socio-Political Change in Developing Nations: India, China, Venezuela, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Spain -- Chapter 12. The Resurgence of Fascism in the Mid-Twenty First Century -- Part III. The Future of Democracy -- Chapter 13. The Hope for Democracy in the Near Future: Global Capitalism, Global Science, and the Global New Middle Class -- Chapter 14. High Technology, Mass Media as Strengthening Democracy: Immediacy and Community in the Blogosphere - Extremism Plus Increased Citizens Involvement -- Chapter 15. High Technology Totalitarianism: The Ultimate Dystopia; Manufactured Charisma in the Cyber World -- Chapter 16. Utopian Visions: Good and Bad Effects on Actual History -- Chapter 17. Education for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: British Classical Education has a Positive Influence on Developing Nations; Civics Education at the High School (Gymnasia) Level -- Chapter 18. Climate Change as a Challenge to the Legitimacy of Advanced Capitalist Democracies -- Chapter 19. Violence vs. Words: Despotism vs. Democracy -- Chapter 20. A Note on the Great Thinkers Whose Writings on Democracy Influence This Work. |