Democracy

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Nadia Urbinati
Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy
It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia U...
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Tom Ginsburg
How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In the United States, the tenure of Donald Trump has seemed decisive turning point for many. What kind of president intimidates jurors, calls the news media ...
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Alfonso
Upholding Democracy
A Revelatory Account Of The 2020 Election—The Most Secure, Verifiable, And Transparent In American History—And The Heroes Brave Enough To Get It Right The Big Truth illuminates a crowning achievement in America’s quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportuni...
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Rosanne Currarino
The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age (Working Class in American History (Paperback))
In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the gr...
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Valerie J. Bunce
Global Challenges to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Backsliding, Autocracy, and Resilience
Following democracy's global advance in the late 20th century, recent patterns of democratic erosion or 'backsliding' have generated extensive scholarly debate. Backsliding towards autocracy is often the work of elected leaders operating within democratic institutions, challenging conventional think...
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Richard L. Wood
A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In A Shared Future , Richard L. Wood and Brad R. Ful...
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Darius Rejali
Torture and Democracy
This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotortur...
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Joseph Fishkin
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
A bold call to reclaim an American tradition that argues the Constitution imposes a duty on government to fight oligarchy and ensure broadly shared wealth. Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing th...
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Ryan P. Burge
The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us (Why the Culture Wars Led to Polarization
The moderate American church is disappearing--and it's taking democracy with it. Many people assume evangelicals are Republican, Democrats aren't religious, and moderate Christians no longer exist. But that wasn't always true. In the 1980s, evangelicals were just as likely sit beside a Democrat as...
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Srdja Popovic
Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism (Brown Democracy Medal)
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The 2020 Brown Democracy Medal winn...
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Tim McCormick
Liberal Democracy Battling for Survival: A Plan for Action
Around the world, democracy is under pressure like never before. Once considered the gold standard of governance, liberal democracy is now in retreat, challenged by the rise of populism, authoritarianism, and disillusionment among citizens. Liberal Democracy Battling for Survival: A Plan for Action...
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Larry Diamond
The Global Resurgence of Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book)
In its first edition, The Global Resurgence of Democracy brought together essays on democratization written from 1989 to 1991 by internationally prominent scholars, intellectuals, and political leaders. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition extends that work with a wealth of fresh mat...
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David A. Sklansky
Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy
How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together. American criminal justice is in crisis. Prisons are swollen, confidence in police has plummeted, and race- and class-based biases distort every aspect of the system. Ame...
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Tzvetan Todorov
A Passion For Democracy - Benjamin Constant
A Passion for Democracy: Benjamin Constant by Tzvetan Todorov offers a compelling exploration of the life and ideas of one of the 19th century's most influential political thinkers. This meticulously researched work delves into the philosophical contributions of Benjamin Constant, whose reflections ...
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Ray A. Moore
Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur
In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most successful and stable democracies. In an age when democracy is often pursued, yet rarely accomplished, in which failed democracies are found throu...
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Andrea Felicetti
Deliberative Democracy and Social Movements: Transition Initiatives in the Public Sphere
Deliberative democracy is increasingly central in democratic theory and its concepts are employed in a growing number of fields, including social movement studies and environmental politics. At the same time, contemporary citizen activism seems to feature some forms of engagement that resonate with ...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness , first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy. Written and first read during the prolonged, tragic...
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Larry M. Bartels
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition (Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub)
An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy―now fully revised and expanded The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and c...
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Edited by Paul F. Kisak
The History of Democracy: " Historic Origins to The Present "
A democracy is a type of political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, or organization, in which all members have the equal share to power. Systems of democracy stand in contrast to other forms of government, including monarchy and oligarchy.Democracy can be traced back fro...
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John P. McCormick
Machiavellian Democracy
Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. Mounting evidence suggests that economic power, not popular will, determines public policy, and that elections consistently fail to keep public officials accountable to the people. John P. ...
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