Ronald J. Terchek - Theories of democracy: a reader

Ronald J. Terchek is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties: Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory and Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy.

Thomas C. Conte has taught in the department of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and is currently an assistant professor at Gettysburg College.

THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY

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Theories of democracy : a reader / [edited by] Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8476-9724-X (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8476-9725-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Democracy. 2. DemocracyHistory. I. Terchek, Ronald, 1936 II. Conte, Thomas C, 1964

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