Democracy

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Eva Erman
Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions
This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focuses on global institutions and human rights rather than nation-state or federalist democracy. Eva Erm...
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Anthony O'Brien
Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against Normalization , ho...
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Sarah M. Stitzlein
American Public Education and the Responsibility of its Citizens: Supporting Democracy in the Age of Accountability
Public school systems are central to a flourishing democracy, where children learn how to solve problems together, build shared identities, and come to value justice and liberty for all. However, as citizen support for public schools steadily declines, our democratic way of life is increasingly at r...
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Bob Bauer
The Unraveling: Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis
Now with a new foreword by Harvard Law Professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, and with a new concluding chapter from the author on the unprecedented ethical challenges in the first year of Trump 2.0. Essential reading for anyone interested in modern American politics, get...
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Stephen Solivan
The American Democracy Bible: [2 in 1] The Ultimate Guide to the U.S. Constitution and Government | Understand America's Rights, Laws, Institutions,
❗️ Individually, these two bestselling guides would cost over 35 DOLLARS — but TODAY, you can get the entire 2-in-1 bundle for just less than 25! ✨   ⭐ The U.S. Constitution and Government Made Easy — Clear, Complete, and Essential for Every American Citizen ⭐   🏛️ Do you...
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Jane J. Mansbridge
Beyond Adversary Democracy
" Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."—Carol Pateman, Politics "Sociologists recurrently complain about how seldom it is that we produce books that combine serious theorizing about important issues of public policy with original ...
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Jason Hannan
Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to De...
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Kurt Weyland
Assault on Democracy
The interwar years saw the greatest reversal of political liberalization and democratization in modern history. Why and how did dictatorship proliferate throughout Europe and Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s? Blending perspectives from history, comparative politics, and cognitive psychology, Kur...
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Nancy G. Bermeo
Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy
For generations, influential thinkers--often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression--have suspected that people's loyalty to democratic institutions erodes under pressure and that citizens gravitate toward antidemocratic extremes in times of political and ec...
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David Beetham
Defining and Measuring Democracy (SAGE Modern Politics series)
Since the 1980s, the rapid worldwide pace of democratization has stimulated a renewed interest in just how we define and measure democracy. But what criteria are used to assess a country′s democracy? How far is it subject to measurement? What kind of measurement and with what degree of precision? ...
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Mariam Mufti
Pakistan's Political Parties: Surviving between Dictatorship and Democracy (South Asia in World Affairs)
Pakistan’s 2018 general elections marked the second successful transfer of power from one elected civilian government to another―a remarkable achievement considering the country’s history of dictatorial rule. Pakistan’s Political Parties examines how the civilian side of the state’s curr...
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Gerassimos Moschonas
In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation from 1945 to the Present
Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siècle  elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears widely disorientated by the dramatic “modern...
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James E. Sanders
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that...
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Terry Tempest Williams
The Open Space of Democracy
Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our t...
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Guinier
The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievem...
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Claire Provost
Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup – namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power. Exposing the origins of th...
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Kenneth J. Dautrich
The Enduring Democracy
How can our history provide us with a roadmap to the future? The Enduring Democracy offers the essentials of American government with a focus on placing current issues and controversies into a historical perspective. By looking back, students can use the context of our country to understand t...
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Tiffany Cross
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy – A Political Analysis of Electoral Power and U.S. History
A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country’s rising majority and exposing political forces aligned to...
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Ivan Hare
Extreme Speech and Democracy
Commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment h...
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Rev. Clyde Dunning Jr
Safeguarding Democracy: Citizens United against Oligarchic Control
**"Safeguarding Democracy: Citizens United Against Oligarchic Control"** In a world where the shadow of oligarchic power looms larger each day, "Safeguarding Democracy: Citizens United Against Oligarchic Control" emerges as a powerful rallying cry, igniting the spark of awareness and action within ...
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