Democracy. The History of One Ideology

Luciano Kanfora is an outstanding Italian historian and a Philologist-Classic, Professor of the University of Bari, Scientific Coordinator of the San Marino School of Historical Sciences. A recognized connoisseur of ancient culture, an active supporter of the method of interdisciplinary research, its work has repeatedly become the subject of a stormy controversy in the scientific community, and this book is no exception.

"The topic of this book is the study of centuries-old attempts, without the end of repeating, not similar to one another to the other methods, no prerequisites, to realize - on the European continent, where the problem was first delivered -" democracy ", that is, democracy . And at the same time, in the study of countermeasures and antidces, designed to resist it: from the stratum of the ancient oligarchs to an effective means of a long tradition and distinguished exceptional vitality: we call it a "mixed system". And also, which is inevitable, in the study of the phenomenon, key for any society and any state-political model: the incessant generation of the ruling elite, which is the faster and more efficiently conquers its position, the nature of its power is recognized as the more "democratic"