Extract
J. Patrick Gunning, 'Understanding Democracy'.
Abstract
As an introduction to Public Choice, this book deserves a very good assessment. It gives the student an easy to understand panorama of the topic and a good background for further studies. However, it is more difficult to consider it as a comprehensive guide to understand Democracy. In any case, it is a good incentive to keep on thinking on such an important topic. ********** 1. The context: Beyond the democracy's century The 20th century has seen a significant expansion of democratic governance. According to the figures of the Freedom House (1), in 1900 there were no states that could be considered as electoral democracies by the nowadays standards of universal suffrage for competitive multiparty elections, and the states with...See the full content of this document
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