Models of Democracy

Models of Democracy by David Held

* Third edition of this hugely successful textbook which has proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. * Provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today.

"The great global struggles today are not over democracy versus other forms of government but over the meanings and practices of democracy themselvesThere is no better critical and engaged survey of the complex histories and contemporary struggles over this deeply contested concept than David Held's third and improved edition of Models of Democracy, precisely because it is written in awareness of its own contestability."
James Tully, University of Victoria

"Models is the kind of established classic which both demands and merits revision every decade or so."
David Beetham, University of Leeds

"Everyone who has used Models will welcome this new edition. Newcomers will find a wide-ranging and reliable analysis of past and present debates about democracy and gain an understanding of what is at issue in current global arguments."
Carole Pateman, Cardiff University and University of California at Los Angeles

David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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ISBN 13	9780745631479
ISBN 10	0745631479
Title	Models of Democracy
Author	David Held
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2006-06-20
Number of pages	408
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