[eBook Code] Democracy and Dictatorship (eBook Code, 1st)

Introduction: Democracy and the Decline of the Left by John Keane.

Preface.

Part I: The great dichotomy: public/private:.

Corresponding dichotomies.

The evaluative use of the great dichotomy.

The second meeting of the dichotomy.

Part II: Civil Society:.

The various meanings.

The Marxian interpretation.

The Hegelian system.

The natural law tradition.

Civil society as civilised society.

The current debate.

Part III: State, Power and Government:.

Towards the study of the state.

The name and the thing.

The state and power.

The foundation of power.

State and law.

The forms of government.

Forms of state.

The end of the state.

Part IV: Democracy and Dictatorship:.

Democracy in the theory of governmental forms.

The descriptive use.

The evaluative use.

The historical use.

Modern democracy.

Representative democracy and direct democracy.

Political democracy and social democracy.

Formal democracy and substantive democracy.

Ancient dictatorship.

Modern dictatorship.

Revolutionary dictatorship.

Bibliography.

Index.