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The meaning of democracy and the vulnerability of democracies a response to Tocqueville's challenge / Vincent Ostrom. . — Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997..

[xiii], 329 p. 24 cm.

Are Democratic Societies Viable? -- Conceptions of Democracy and the Language of Political Inquiry -- Newspeak and Doublethink: The Delusion of Ideologies -- Epistemic Choice and Public Choice -- The Human Condition: Life, Learning, Language, Knowledge, Culture, and the Problem of Order -- An Institutional Analysis of the Place of Languages in the Political Economy of Life -- The Ontological Foundations of Human Understanding -- Artisanship-Artifact Relationships -- Comparing African and European Experience -- East and West -- Toward a Science of Citizenship in Democratic Systems of Order.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Democracy.