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The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era Marisa Ramirez Stukey and why is it nowAlthough the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twenty first has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government throughout the world. Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theorist Ralph Ketcham traces the evolution of this idea over the course of four hundred years. He traces democracy's bumpy ride in a book that is both an