Will of the people : original democracy in non-western societies/ Raul Sevilla Manglapus

By: Publisher: Westport, Connecticut : Freedom House, c1987Description: 167 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0313258376[newsprint]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • Fil 321.8 M31 1987
Contents:
Contents : Democracy and despotism: chicken and egg? -- 2 Marx and Toynbee vs. the :cake of custom" -- 3 Mesopotamia: earliest formal democracy? -- 4 India: the spirit of Licchavis -- 5 The stubborn village -- 6 The Panchayat: Gandhi vs. Britain -- 7 Varna and pygmalion -- 8 Confusius said -- 9 The hills are alive -- 10 The adat-durable cake -- 11 Stone age legislatures -- 12 The consensual islands --13 Iroquois- the first American republic -- 14 The tribes: proving Jefferson right -- 15 Aztecs: Mexican Schizophrenia -- 16 Incan empire: the democratic fringe -- 17 Bantu assembly: original south African democracy -- 18 One-party system: un-African activity -- 19 Semitic pluralism -- 20 Korea and Japan-the "improbable democracies"
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Includes index.

Contents : Democracy and despotism: chicken and egg? -- 2 Marx and Toynbee vs. the :cake of custom" -- 3 Mesopotamia: earliest formal democracy? -- 4 India: the spirit of Licchavis -- 5 The stubborn village -- 6 The Panchayat: Gandhi vs. Britain -- 7 Varna and pygmalion -- 8 Confusius said -- 9 The hills are alive -- 10 The adat-durable cake -- 11 Stone age legislatures -- 12 The consensual islands --13 Iroquois- the first American republic -- 14 The tribes: proving Jefferson right -- 15 Aztecs: Mexican Schizophrenia -- 16 Incan empire: the democratic fringe -- 17 Bantu assembly: original south African democracy -- 18 One-party system: un-African activity -- 19 Semitic pluralism -- 20 Korea and Japan-the "improbable democracies"

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