1. Overall Changes In Democracy
The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. ... The word comes from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratein, meaning "to rule." ... Democracy nowadays is a word much used and even more misused. It has many meanings and has turned up in surprising places--the Spain of General Franco, the Greece of the colonels, the Pakistan of the generals, the Eastern Europe of the commissars--usually prefaced by some qualifying adjective such as "guided," "basic," "organic," "popular," or the like, which serves...
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