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Intro; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Mixed Messages in the Middle of the Twenty-First Century; Contents; Part I: Democracy as a Uniquely Human Political Process; Chapter 1: Humans in the Scientific State of Nature; 1.1 Humans in the Scientific State of Nature; Chapter 2: Democracy and Despotism in Tribal Society; 2.1 Democracy in Tribal Societies; 2.2 Despotism in Tribal Confederations: Kings and Priests; 2.2.1 The Power of the Priests: Theocracy and the Divine Kingship; 2.2.2 Human History Becomes the History of Kings and Conquests
Chapter 3: City-State Democracy in Sumer, Syria and Canaan-Phoenicia3.1 City-State Democracy is Carried Over from Tribal Democracy; 3.2 The City King; 3.3 The High Priest & Priestess; Chapter 4: The City-States of Ancient Greece: Democracy, Science, and Legal-Rational Authority Emerge; 4.1 The City-States of Ancient Greece; 4.2 The Volatility of Democracy and the Necessity of Constitutional Law; 4.3 Trade-Capitalism and Contract Law; 4.4 The Decline of Greek Olympian Religion and the Rise of the Rational-Scientific World-View; 4.5 The Rational-Scientific World-View
4.6 The Middle-Class Majority and the Stabilization of Democracy4.6.1 Trade-Capitalism as Undergirding Democratic Government; 4.7 Women & Slaves Excluded from the Democracy; Chapter 5: The Kingly-Bureaucratic State: The Integration of Larger Political Areas; Chapter 6: The Renaissance City-States of Italy; Chapter 7: The Northern European City-States Unite in Leagues with Elected Representatives; Chapter 8: The Rational-Scientific World-View after the Protestant Reformation; Part II: Democracy in the Modern World
Chapter 9: Free Market Capitalism Undergirds City-State and Nation-State DemocracyChapter 10: Four Ways Free Market Capitalism Reinforces Legal-Rational Democracy; 10.1 One: The Separation of the Economy from the Polity; 10.2 Two: Contract Law and Patent Law; 10.3 Three: The Rational-Scientific World-View; 10.4 Four: The Majority Middle Class and Democracy; 10.5 Is there a Numerical Formula Relating to a Middle-Class Majority?; Chapter 11: Case Studies of Socio-Political Change in Some of the Developing Nations; 11.1 India; 11.2 China; 11.3 Russia; 11.3.1 Enter, Marx, Lenin and Trotsky
11.4 The Peculiar Nature of the Russian Economy: Oligarchic Kleptocracy and Mafia-Style Violence11.5 The Middle East: Why the "Arab Spring" Turned to Winter; 11.6 Enter the Muslim Brotherhood; 11.7 Syria and Iraq; 11.8 What About Iran? Persia and the Possibility for Democracy in the Near Future; 11.9 The Case of Spain and the Hope for the Future of Democracy; Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Fascism in the Mid-Twenty First Century; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 The Resurgence of Fascism; 12.3 The Social Democratic Parties Cave in to the Globalization Pressure
Chapter 3: City-State Democracy in Sumer, Syria and Canaan-Phoenicia3.1 City-State Democracy is Carried Over from Tribal Democracy; 3.2 The City King; 3.3 The High Priest & Priestess; Chapter 4: The City-States of Ancient Greece: Democracy, Science, and Legal-Rational Authority Emerge; 4.1 The City-States of Ancient Greece; 4.2 The Volatility of Democracy and the Necessity of Constitutional Law; 4.3 Trade-Capitalism and Contract Law; 4.4 The Decline of Greek Olympian Religion and the Rise of the Rational-Scientific World-View; 4.5 The Rational-Scientific World-View
4.6 The Middle-Class Majority and the Stabilization of Democracy4.6.1 Trade-Capitalism as Undergirding Democratic Government; 4.7 Women & Slaves Excluded from the Democracy; Chapter 5: The Kingly-Bureaucratic State: The Integration of Larger Political Areas; Chapter 6: The Renaissance City-States of Italy; Chapter 7: The Northern European City-States Unite in Leagues with Elected Representatives; Chapter 8: The Rational-Scientific World-View after the Protestant Reformation; Part II: Democracy in the Modern World
Chapter 9: Free Market Capitalism Undergirds City-State and Nation-State DemocracyChapter 10: Four Ways Free Market Capitalism Reinforces Legal-Rational Democracy; 10.1 One: The Separation of the Economy from the Polity; 10.2 Two: Contract Law and Patent Law; 10.3 Three: The Rational-Scientific World-View; 10.4 Four: The Majority Middle Class and Democracy; 10.5 Is there a Numerical Formula Relating to a Middle-Class Majority?; Chapter 11: Case Studies of Socio-Political Change in Some of the Developing Nations; 11.1 India; 11.2 China; 11.3 Russia; 11.3.1 Enter, Marx, Lenin and Trotsky
11.4 The Peculiar Nature of the Russian Economy: Oligarchic Kleptocracy and Mafia-Style Violence11.5 The Middle East: Why the "Arab Spring" Turned to Winter; 11.6 Enter the Muslim Brotherhood; 11.7 Syria and Iraq; 11.8 What About Iran? Persia and the Possibility for Democracy in the Near Future; 11.9 The Case of Spain and the Hope for the Future of Democracy; Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Fascism in the Mid-Twenty First Century; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 The Resurgence of Fascism; 12.3 The Social Democratic Parties Cave in to the Globalization Pressure