Download or read book The Real World of Democracy written by C. B. MacPherson and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Real World of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another. Macpherson, who was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and an Officer of the Order of Canada, suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values.