Democracy: All That Matters

All That Matters

by Steven Beller

Dive into one of the world's most powerful and widespread political systems All That Matters spells out the basic characteristics of modern-day democracy, its origins, its history, its current practice and problems, and its potential future. It addresses the Arab Spring and political changes in Burma and elsewhere, as well as the crisis of alienation and stagnation in the more established democracies like in the United States and in Europe.

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 27, 2012

About the author

Steven Beller is a Visiting Scholar at George Washington University, Washington DC, and a former Research Fellow in History at Peterhouse College, Cambridge.