Publisher's Synopsis
Heterodox historical review of democracy, its origins and its founding myths. Organized in three parts, this book deals with the different types of democracy that have been established in each epoch of history and its characteristics. It traces the origins of this form of organization in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia. Review the main ideals about the nature of representative democracy, permeated by the ideologies of the eighteenth-century enlightenment, and the forms that it has adopted. Finally, it introduces a new form of democracy that was born from the second half of the 20th century and which the author conceives as a monitored democracy.
