Democracy

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Walter Lippmann
The Phantom Public
Is the "Will of the People" a myth? Discover the controversial classic that shattered the romantic illusion of democracy. In a world saturated with media manipulation , fake news , and political polarization, do you ever feel like a "deaf spectator in the back row" of history? You are not alone. I...
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Shadi Hamid
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand t...
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Jerome Reich
Colonial America
This brief, up-to-date examination of American colonial history draws connections between the colonial period and American life today by including formerly neglected areas of social and cultural history and the role of minorities (African-Americans, Native-Americans, women, and laboring classes). It...
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Haneul Jung
Clash of Worldviews: Understanding the 21st Century International Order Through Ideas
Hegemony is over. Worldviews collide. To grasp world politics, look beyond power and economics—to the battle of ideas. What truly drives the course of history—power, economics, or something even deeper? In Clash of Worldviews , Haneul Jung reveals the ideological struggle that lies beneath e...
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Jan-Werner Muller
What Is Populism?
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does pop...
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Joseph Livni
The Biblical Roots of American Constitutionalism: From "I Am the Lord" to "We the People"
According to the conventional wisdom American constitutional democracy stemmed from Athenian democracy, Roman Law, English legal practices, and the Magna Carta. This book agrees that democracy was born in Athens. However, as the title suggests, the thesis of this book claims that constitutionalism i...
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Dieter Grimm
Sovereignty: The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept (Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History)
Dieter Grimm's accessible introduction to the concept of sovereignty ties the evolution of the idea to historical events, from the religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe to today's trends in globalization and transnational institutions. Grimm wonders whether recent political changes have un...
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Christopher McKnight Nichols
Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories
Winner, 2023 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations, History Section, International Studies Association Ideology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. Racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization underlay the political revolution of...
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Joni D
Agitated: Grupos Autónomos and Armed Anticapitalism in Spain, 1974–1984
A cultural history of Spain’s dictatorship through the lens of the Grupos Autónomos, who opposed both the Franco regime and the new capitalist democracy.  The Franco dictatorship in Spain was famously beset by armed revolutionary groups, inheritors of the legacy of Spanish anarchism that Franco ...
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Srinath Raghavan
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
The gripping story of Indira Gandhi’s premiership—and the profound influence she had on India   Indira Gandhi’s ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon emerged as one of the most powerful political leaders of her times, who transformed the world’s ...
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Cynthia Fleury
Here Lies Bitterness: Healing from Resentment
The greatest threat to modern democracy comes from within and it has a name: resentment.  Stemming from feelings of inferiority in relation to others, resentment is a diffuse and obsessive loathing, coupled with delusions of victimhood, which clouds one’s judgment and perspective, so that an indi...
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Daniel Ziblatt
How Democracies Die
Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of o...
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Zhang Boli
Escape from China: The Long Journey From Tiananmen to Freedom
Who can forget the images, telecast worldwide, of brave Chinese students facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two-week standoff in 1989, military forces suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing arrest warrants for top student leade...
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Richard D Flower
America through an old man's eyes: A collection of essays for those who can handle the truth
America Through an Old Man's Eyes... This book is a collection of essays, written over a period of approximately six months. The series begins with an essay entitled An Introduction – We the People, is a summary of what the author recalls from his high school civics class. The introductory essay ...
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Francois Furet
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
Two centuries later, the French Revolution―that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy―continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this magnificent volume is not only to present the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars...
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Michal Shapira
The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of
The War Inside is a groundbreaking history of the contribution of British psychoanalysis to the making of social democracy, childhood, and the family during World War II and the postwar reconstruction. Psychoanalysts informed understandings not only of individuals, but also of broader political ques...
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Don H. Doyle
The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World (America in the World)
A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination s...
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Howard Fast
The Bridge Builder's Story: A Novel
Comparativists evaluate democratization by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without considering the essence of democracy. This book argues the need to consider democracy as a combination of rights and virtues, and that problems of democraticization are those...
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Philippe Girard
Haiti: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and international...
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Hahrie Han
How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century
Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political acti...
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