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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Aquilino Gonell
American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy
“ American Shield is an all-American tale of duty and determination—beautifully told by an immigrant, a veteran, and a patriot.” —Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita of the United States House of Representatives Set against the extraordinary events of January 6, 2021, Aquilino Gonell’s inspira...
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Parker J. Palmer
Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
* NEWS FLASH * Healing the Heart of Democracy called "one of the most important books of the early 21st Century"  for those who care about democracy. ( Democracy & Education) * NEWS FLASH *  Healing the Heart of Democrac y  named one of the  "Best Books of 2011"  on contemplation and socia...
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John Dunn
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy, Second Edition
Why does democracy―as a word and as an idea―loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its ne...
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Russell Crandall
Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama
In this balanced and thoughtprovoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy; the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Drawing upon previously classified intelligence sources and interviews with policymakers...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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John F. M. McDermott
Restoring Democracy to America: How to Free Markets and Politics from the Corporate Culture of Business and Government
If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades―a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a larg...
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David Daley
Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy
The “wildly undersold story” (Lawrence Lessig) of the next American revolution, and the inspiring citizen activists fighting to save America’s fragile democracy. Our country is dominated by a political party that has no interest in governing, and that seeks to entrench its power by limiting d...
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Jose Antonio Cheibub
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
This book addresses the following question: why are presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones? Conventional wisdom among political scientists pointS to the incentives generated by the form of government itself; the independence of the executive and legislature that d...
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