Democracy

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Wendell Potter
Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
"A rallying cry to bring government back under the control of the people . . . Their argument is impassioned and accessible." -- Library Journal American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums ...
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Gottfried Dietze
America's Political Dilemma - From Limited to Unlimited Democracy
The author reemphasizes the major values of America's Founding Fathers as set forth in the Constitution, and delineates how far from that American dream democracy has strayed. Originally published by Johns Hopkins Press in 1968. Comments on the first edition: “...a carefully written, scholarly w...
$78.99
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Diana C. Mutz
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy
'Religion and politics', as the old saying goes, 'should never be discussed in mixed company.'And yet fostering discussions that cross lines of political difference has long been a central concern of political theorists. More recently, it has also become a cause célèbre for pundits and civic-minde...
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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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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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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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Benazir Bhutto
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West – The Final Testament of Pakistan's Martyred Prime Minister
“It is impossible to understand today’s world without knowing Pakistan; and impossible to understand Pakistan without reading this book. A courageous woman—tragically killed—speaks to us of reconciliation. We owe it to her—and to ourselves—to listen, comprehend, and act.” — Madelein...
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Timothy Frye
Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Does democracy promote the creation of market economies and robust state institutions? Do state-building and market-building go hand in hand? Or do they work at cross-purposes? This book examines the relationship between state-building and market-building in 25 post-communist countries from 1990 to ...
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Noel A. Cazenave
Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs
Explores how community action programs used federal funds to sponsor social protest–based community reform. Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America Impossible Democracy challenges the conventional wisdom th...
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Derrick Darby
Boxed In: Making Identities Safe for Democracy
Our lives take shape around identities. Race, religion, sexual orientation, and other collective identities impose scripts that dictate how we should think, act, and associate. African Americans should support reparations and affirmative action. Evangelical Christians should associate with true beli...
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Guoguang Wu
Globalization against Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph
Globalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to the shell of nation-stat...
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Christine Schirrmacher
Islam and Democracy: Can They Be Reconciled? (The WEA Global Issues Series)
What relationship do Islam and democracy have to each other? Why are there presently so few democracies among Islamic-dominated states? Does the reason for this perhaps lie in the fact that Islam and democracy are irreconcilable opposites? These questions are relevant not only for the Near East an...
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Jean-Paul Faguet
Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia
Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public investment shifted dramatically toward primary services and resource distribution became far more equitabl...
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James Bohman
Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics
Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informed modern political theory. As a recent elaboration of these ideals, the concept of deliberative democracy is based on the principle that legitimate democracy issues from the public deliberation of citizens. This remarka...
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David Art
The Resilience of the Old Regime: Paths Around Democracy in Europe, 1832–1919
In The Resilience of the Old Regime, David Art reevaluates the so-called first wave of democratization in Western Europe through the lens of authoritarian resilience. He argues that non-democrats succeeded to a very large degree in managing, diverting, disrupting, and repressing democratic movements...
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Henry A. Giroux
Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge (Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy)
This book examines the relationship between democracy and schooling and argues that schools are one of the few spheres left where youth can learn the knowledge and skills necessary to become engaged, critical citizens. Not only is the legacy of democracy addressed through the work of John Dewey and ...
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Emily Beaulieu
Electoral Protest and Democracy in the Developing World
This book shows that the third wave of democracy has been accompanied by a worldwide wave of opposition-initiated, election-related protests. Such electoral protests result from a failure on the part of incumbent and opposition elites in the developing world to negotiate acceptable terms of electora...
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Benjamin Isakhan
The Secret History of Democracy
This book explores the intriguing idea that there is much more democracy in human history than is generally acknowledged. It establishes that democracy was developing across greater Asia before classical Athens, clung on during the 'Dark Ages', often formed part of indigenous governance and is devel...
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John McGowan
Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy
In our current age of cynicism, John McGowan suggests that the time is right to take a fresh look at pragmatism, the philosophy of American democracy. As McGowan shows, pragmatism can be an inspiring alternative to the despair that seems to dominate contemporary American politics. Pragmatist Politi...
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Smith II
Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago
“The African American community.” “The black position.” In accounts of black politics after the Second World War, these phrases reflect how the African American perspective generally appeared consistent, coherent, and unified. In Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis , Preston H. Smith ...
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