Democracy

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Charles Taylor
Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up
“An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times.” ―Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is i...
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Rita Kiki Edozie
Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics
Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third...
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Stephen M. Feldman
Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History
From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorsed the silencing of free expression.  If the connection between democracy and the freedom of speech is such a vital one, why would so many governmental l...
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James S. Fishkin
When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
All over the world, democratic reforms have brought power to the people, but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. In this book, James Fishkin combines a new theory of democracy with actual practice and shows how an idea that harks bac...
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Stephen E. Gottlieb
Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics
Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America’s surviva...
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Tom Kemp
Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy
Nonfiction Book Awards Gold Medal The path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies Technology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies―Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google―have built innovative products that improve many aspects of our lives. But their int...
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Jim Wallis
The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Everyone who claims to be 'Christian' or else claims to be upset by 'Christianity' needs to read this book, especially politicians using people's supposed faith for their own ends." ―Margaret E. Atwood "Jim Wallis calls the nation to grow up...
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Donna Harsch
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany’s largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But d...
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Mr Jamie Murray
The Culture War Code: How to make peace at the kitchen table and maybe save democracy too!
If you are done with the polarization and the endless culture wars this book is for you. The fact is the "culture wars" are not about politics or generational divides or even class divides. It's not even about values. It's about something far more profound—and completely fixable. What if humans...
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Cheng Li
China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy
While China's economic rise is being watched closely around the world, the country's changing political landscape is intriguing, as well. Forces unleashed by market reforms are profoundly recasting state-society relations. Will the Middle Kingdom transition rapidly, slowly, or not at all to politica...
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Ewald Grothe
Ludwig Haas: A German Jew and Fighter for Democracy
Ludwig Haas (1875-1930) was a Jewish German patriot, decorated war veteran, founding father of the parliamentary democracy of the Weimar Republic, Reichstag member, and leader of the left-liberal German Democratic Party. The Weimar Republic was a bold experiment in liberal democracy but ultimately a...
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Ultaro
Ultaro Protect Democracy Garden Flag Double Sided Blue 12x18 UV Resistant Polyester Flag for Outdoor Use, 1 Set
Durable Polyester Fabric: The Protect Democracy garden flag is made of machine washable Spun Polyester that is weather resistant and long lasting. Double Sided: Design is double sided with the image printed and visible from both sides and text also reads correctly from both sides. 12"x18" Decorative...
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Alfonso
Upholding Democracy
A Revelatory Account Of The 2020 Election—The Most Secure, Verifiable, And Transparent In American History—And The Heroes Brave Enough To Get It Right The Big Truth illuminates a crowning achievement in America’s quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportuni...
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Sam Daley-Harris
Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen's Guide to Transformational Advocacy, 2024 Edition
Almost everyone shies away from advocacy as a way to make a difference. We donate to climate change organizations, but we don’t meet with a member of Congress or write a letter to the editor. We donate to groups working to end gun violence, anti-hunger organizations, groups dedicated to racial ju...
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Melvin L. Rogers
The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject America’s demo...
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Rosanne Currarino
The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age (Working Class in American History (Paperback))
In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the gr...
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Tirthankar Roy
Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond (Markets and Governments in Economic History)
An essential history of India's economic growth since 1947, including the legal reforms that have shaped the country in the shadow of colonial rule. Economists have long lamented how the inefficiency of India's legal system undermines the country’s economic capacity. How has this come to be? Th...
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Marc Stears
Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
What today's political thinkers can learn from the radical democratic movements of twentieth-century America This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democrati...
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Francis Fukuyama
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal , David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review , ...
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Yvette Lind
Taxation, Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century
Proposing innovative ideas on the links between taxation, citizenship and democracy, this multidisciplinary book contributes to ongoing research and scholarship by emphasizing the importance of taxation to the functioning of modern democracy. This book provides methodological and theoretical rese...
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