Democracy

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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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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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Jamie Raskin
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in o...
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Jill Frank
A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics
Offering an ancient education for our times, Jill Frank's A Democracy of Distinction interprets Aristotle's writings in a way that reimagines the foundations, aims, and practices of politics, ancient and modern. Concerned especially with the work of making a democracy of distinction, Frank shows t...
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Jeff Manza
Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
5.4 million Americans--1 in every 40 voting-age adults--are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal suffra...
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Seth Ashley
News Literacy and Democracy
News Literacy and Democracy invites readers to go beyond surface-level fact checking and to examine the structures, institutions, practices, and routines that comprise news media systems. This introductory text underscores the importance of news literacy to democratic life and advances an argument ...
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David Runciman
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition
Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis―and why that belief is so dangerous Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wi...
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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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Tina Nabatchi
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy (Bryson Series in Public and Nonprofit Management)
A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21 st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation deve...
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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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Adam Bronson
One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute,
After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, one of the most influential associations to emerge in the ea...
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Mic Farris
Local Democracy in America: On Elections and Their Role in Self-Governance
In America, elected officials should be elected. However, at the local level, those in power have sometimes chosen not to hold elections. And this has happened. Multiple times. In the same modern American city. In the 21st century. It took a law in that city to guarantee that elections are held. T...
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Allen Guelzo
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize *Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize* *Finalist for the 2025 Gilder ...
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Sidney M. Milkis
Can Democracy and Capitalism Be Reconciled?
In Can Capitalism and Democracy Be Reconciled? , Sidney M. Milkis and Scott C. Miller have gathered a truly eminent cast of contributors to provide a multidisciplinary examination at the intersection of capitalist economies and democratic political systems across time and space. Featuring twenty-fo...
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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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Aharon Barak
The Judge in a Democracy
Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes...
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H.L. Mencken
Notes on Democracy
"Notes on Democracy" by H.L. Mencken is a critical examination of democratic principles and practices. Mencken, known for his sharp wit and incisive commentary, explores the flaws and contradictions inherent in democratic systems. He argues that democracy often leads to mediocrity, as the masses are...
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Thom Hartmann
The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
America’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy. In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce...
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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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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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