Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?: Oligarchy, tyranny, and ochlocracy in the age of global

Part I: THE RICH AGAINST DEMOCRACY
Chapter 1: Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny in the City-States of the Ancient World
Chapter 2: Renaissance Italian City-States:  The Triumph of Oligarchy and TyrannyChapter 3: Oligarchy and Democracy in the German and Dutch Trade-Capitalist and Reformation City-StatesChapter 4: Oligarchy and Democracy in the Dutch Republic and Great Britain: The Emergence of Representative Democracy
Chapter 5: The Structure of High Technology Global Capitalism
Chapter 6: The Realignment of the Political Parties in the Advanced Capitalist Nations
Chapter 7: Global Capitalism vs. Geo-Political Nationalism
Chapter 8: The Managerial and Entrepreneurial Rich Take a Huge Percentage of the Wealth to Themselves
Chapter 9: Taxing the Rich

Part II: THE POOR AGAINST DEMOCRACY

Chapter 10: Aristotle on the Problem of a Majority Poor
Chapter 11: Africa and the Traditional Poor
Chapter 12: The Middle East:  The Sunni-Shia Split; Radical Islam; Tribalism; and Oil
Chapter 13: The Poor, The Military, and Tyranny

Part III: TYRANNY

Chapter 14: The Origins of Tyranny: From the War Chief and Shaman to Divine Kingship
Chapter 15: The Emergence of Tyranny Without Traditional Kingship
Chapter 16: Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny in the Italian City-States
Chapter 17: Tyranny During the English and French Revolutions: Cromwell, Napoleon and Louis Napoleon
Chapter 18: From Tyranny to Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Fascism and Nazism, Mass Mobilization and Mass Murder
Chapter 19: From Tyranny to Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Communism - Utopian Dreams and Totalitarianism Reality
Chapter 20: Totalitarianism: Tyranny Taken to a Terrifying Level Totalitarianism as a New Political Phenomenon
Chapter 21: Illiberal Democracy: A New Form of Modern Tyranny

Part IV: OCHLOCRACY: MOB RULE AND CROWD PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CYBERSPHERE

Chapter 22: Ochlocracy as a Critique of Democracy in the Ancient Greek World
Chapter 23: Ochlocracy Disappears:  The Rise of Representative Democracy
Chapter 24: Ochlocracy in the Cybersphere

Part V: THE MODERN TRANSITION: A FOURFOLD PROCESS - ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, WORLDVIEW, AND POLITICAL

Chapter 25: The Economic Transition to High Technology Industrial Capitalism
Chapter 26: The Cultural Transition: The Cultural Transition: From Traditional Religious Family and "Tribal" Values to the "Politically Correct" Values, on Racial Equality, Gender Equality, Gay Liberation, and Multiculturalism
Chapter 27: The New Worldview: The Rational Scientific Worldview, and, Secular Humanism
Chapter 28: The Political Transition: From Traditional Authority (Monarchy) to Electoral Democracy with Legal-Rational Authority