Defining Democracy

First off, I wanted to say that I very much appreciate everyone who has posted a review of our book, positive or negative, on Amazon or Goodreads (or both!). That being said, we had our longest, and easily mostthoughtfulnegative review on Amazon yesterday, which echoes questions and complaints I’ve gotten about the book other places. So I thought I would respond to a couple of his points over the next couple of days.

His review begins by noting that our definition of democracy is pretty underw...