Democracy and Its Alternatives

<p>Dig into democracy’s definitions, duties, debates, and difficulties, with special attention to how democratic governments have worked—or not—around the world and throughout time.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: Is Democracy Built to Last?
• 02: Politics and Personal Sacrifice
• 03: Government and the Invention of Law
• 04: The Rise of the Modern State
• 05: States, Nations, and Nationalism
• 06: Why Care about Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau?
• 07: Who Gets to Vote?
• 08: Voters and the Dangers of Too Much Democracy
• 09: Should Presidents or Parliaments Lead?
• 10: The Vote Counter Decides Everything
• 11: Do Political Parties Help or Hurt?
• 12: The Problems with Federalism
• 13: Are Courts and Constitutions Democratic?
• 14: The Controversial Politics of Central Banks
• 15: Who Backs Authoritarians?
• 16: The Dictator’s Playbook
• 17: When States Fail, What Comes Next?
• 18: Partition, Peacekeeping, and Human Crisis
• 19: What Really Causes Wealth and Poverty?
• 20: The Global Fault Lines of Trade
• 21: Is the European Union a Success or Failure?
• 22: When the Balance of Power Breaks Down
• 23: Why It’s So Hard to Work Together
• 24: Gridlock and Democracy