Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Origins: democracy in the ancient Greek world
• 2. Democracy suppressed: the Roman republic and empire
• 3. The early Middle Ages and the transition from feudalism to capitalism
• 4. The English Revolution and parliamentary democracy
• 5. The American Revolution and constitutional redefinition of democracy
• 6. The revolutionary revival of democracy in France
• 7. The revolutions of 1848-49
• 8. Capitalist expansion, globalisation and democratisation
• 9. The Marxist critique of capitalism and representative democracy
• 10. Precursors of socialist participatory democracy: the Paris Commune of 1871 and Russian Revolutio
• Bibliography
• Index