Democracy

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Jon R. Bond
Analyzing American Democracy: Politics and Political Science
Following one of the most contentious and truth-challenged presidential administrations and elections in U.S. history, there has never been a greater need for an American government text like this--evidence-based, critically thoughtful, and contemporary in tone and touch. This text teaches students ...
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Michael J. Lansing
Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to thirteen ...
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Jason Morgan Ward
Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight. Journalists profiled the rise of a segregationist movement committed to preserving the "southern way of life" through a campaign of massive resistance. In Defending White D...
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Lisa Mitchell
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections
In Hailing the State , Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable, demand inclusion in decision making, and stage informal referendums. Mitchell traces the colonial and postcolonial lineages ...
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Kyle G. Volk
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, historian Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explo...
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Ed Wode
PARITY DEMOCRACY, how to level the world economic playing field
This book is a treatise on how to create real democracy by leveling the world economic playing field. It maintains that current democracy is pseudo democracy. It maintains that global free trade is unfair trade and is causing failed states. Parity Economics offers a solution that is fair for all. It...
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Joseph Postell
Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government (Studies in Constitutional Democracy)
The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by ...
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Andreas Jungherr
Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy
Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, non-governmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the e...
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Sergio Martini
Citizens and Democracy in Europe: Contexts, Changes and Political Support (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)
This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of how attitudes towards democracy and political institutions differ across 31 countries in Europe, and how these attitudes have fluctuated over time. After addressing conceptual and measurement issues about the evaluative dimension of political...
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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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Ann Bausum
Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I
In 1915, the United States experienced the 9/11 of its time. A German torpedo sank the Lusitania killing nearly 2,000 innocent passengers. The ensuing hysteria helped draw the United States into World War I—the bitter, brutal conflict that became known as the Great War and the War to End All War...
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Russell J. Dalton
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy
Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. This book assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties link the individual citizen to the forma...
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Nikhil Pal Singh
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he cons...
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Alexander Gerschenkron
Bread and Democracy in Germany (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs (Hardcover))
A classic in its field, Bread and Democracy in Germany has been widely praised since its publication in 1943 for its account of German political and economic development. In his preface, Alexander Gerschenkron states: "The primary purpose of this study is to show, first, how, before 1914, the mach...
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Lyn Graybill
Africa's Second Wave of Freedom: Development, Democracy, and Rights, Vol. 11 (The Miller Center Series on a World in Change)
Africa's Second Wave of Freedom represents the work of scholars who share a concern with the development of civil society in Africa. The first third of the book deals theoretically with the issues of democracy and stability in Africa. In particular, the contributors analyze the inadequacy of the Un...
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Patriotic Pro-Democracy Protest July14 No Kings in America Long Sleeve T-Shirt
Pro-democracy protest shirt for July 14th no kings protest, Independence Day, July Fourth, July 4th, Fourth of July. Make your feelings clear America should have no Kings. Patriotic, pro-constitution, pro-democracy. No Kings Since 1776. No Kings in the USA. Reject authoritarianism. Patriotic pro-USA...
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John Layman
A Blueprint for American Democracy: Practical Fixes for a Democracy Worth Saving
For decades, Americans have been told that our democracy is unfixable—too divided, too corrupt, too complicated to save. A Blueprint for American Democracy proves otherwise. Drawing from a lifetime of civic observation, IT-driven problem-solving, and lived experience inside a system that too oft...
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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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Mistra
Traditional Leaders in a Democracy: Resources, Respect and Resistance
Post-1994, South Africa's traditional leaders have fought for recognition, and positioned themselves as major players in the South African political landscape. Yet their role in a democracy is contested, with leaders often accused of abusing power, disregarding human rights, expropriating resources ...
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John-Paul Chaisson-Cardenas
4-H - A DEI Love Story: How Positive Youth Development Became a Battleground for Democracy
How Positive Youth Development Became a Battleground for Democracy is a powerful dual memoir that traces the collision of public service, equity, and political backlash within one of America’s most iconic youth programs: 4-H. Co-authored by two leaders from vastly different backgrounds—Lisa, a...
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