Democracy

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Nancy Isenberg
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
"Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over partisanship." --The Wall Street Journal How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our...
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Kurt Weyland
When Democracy Trumps Populism: European and Latin American Lessons for the United States
The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Because no populist leader had occupied the White House in 150 years, there were many questions about what to expect. Marshaling the long-standing expertis...
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Nathan Gardels
Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism (Volume 1) (Great Transformations)
The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challe...
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John O. McGinnis
Why Democracy Needs the Rich
Why Democracy Needs the Rich challenges the prevailing belief that wealth undermines democracy, offering instead a bracing, thought-provoking claim that the rich play an essential role in sustaining and improving democratic institutions. At a moment when billionaires are often vilified as symbols o...
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Hugh Cunningham
The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918
This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a clear narrative of political events, and an analysis of change and continuity in ideas and in economic an...
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August H. Nimtz Jr
Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic'
While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. August J. Nimtz argues that Marx, unlike Tocqueville, not only recognized that the overthrow of slavery and the cessation of r...
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E. B. White
On Democracy: E. B. White's Essays on Freedom, Fascism, and Hope in an Age of Uncertainty
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Book “For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.”—Madeleine Albright A collection of essays, letters, and poems from E. B. White, “one of the country’s great literary treasures” ( New York Times)...
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Peter Levine
The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)
We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for institutions such as schools, and for young people themselves, who are more likely to succeed in life if they are engaged in their communities. In The Futu...
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Jason M. Hanania
The Four Powers: Assessments of Democracy, Abuses of Centralized Power, and Blockchain-Based National Security (Technodemocracy)
What is power? How does it become centralized or decentralized? These questions are at the heart of understanding how governments work. Humankind has barely scratched the surface of what it takes to provide for democracy, equality, and reduced social risk. History has taught us that centralizin...
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Joan C. Tronto
Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice
A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the center Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the Un...
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Samuel E. Quainoo
Transitions and Consolidation of Democracy in Africa (Global Academic Publishing)
Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa. What conditions motivate a transition to democracy? Can the dynamics of a transition influence its outcome? Under what circumstances has democracy been consolidated in Africa? This trilogy of questions has become necessary in light of the current de...
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E. B. White
On Democracy
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Book “For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.”—Madeleine Albright A collection of essays, letters, and poems from E. B. White, “one of the country’s great literary treasures” ( New York Times)...
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Bob Passi
Saving Democracy: From the Warnings of 2016 to the Urgency of 2025
We are living through a watershed moment. The future of American democracy hangs in the balance — and the decisions we make right now will determine the kind of country we leave for generations to come. In Saving Democracy , Bob Passi offers a clear-eyed, urgent, and ultimately hopeful call to ac...
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Martín Plot
The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière
This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is deve...
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William G. Howell
Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
Has American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government—and if democracy is to be saved, the ca...
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Timothy W. Burns
Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education (Thought Leo Strauss Legacy)
The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education. Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood ...
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Frank Karsten
Beyond Democracy: Why democracy does not lead to solidarity, prosperity and liberty but to social conflict, runaway spending and a tyrannical
"Just finished reading the thing. Fantastic. Great work. Congratulations." Hans-Hermann Hoppe, author of 'Democracy: The God That Failed' "This book has massive explanatory power. It can liberate your mind." Jeffrey Tucker, executive editor of Laissez Faire Books Democracy is widely considered to be...
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Si Kahn
The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy
An activist and a philosopher discuss how privatization harms society and how we can challenge it. Privatization has been on the right-wing agenda for years. Health care, schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons—all are considered fair game. Through stories, analysis, impass...
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Michel Callon
Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy (Inside Technology)
A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology. Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbesto...
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Babak Amini
The Making of Council Democracy: State Transformation and Radical Possibilities (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism)
“Council democracy” is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system. Both in political practice and in social theory, “council democracy...
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