Democracy

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Sidney Tarrow
Movements and Parties (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics – from the Civil War era to the women's rights and civ...
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Gabriele Badano
Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views
How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic values? This question has become particularly pressing after the recent successes of right-wing populist leaders and parties across Europe, in the US, and...
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Anshuman Mishra
Denmark: From Viking Foundations to a Model of Equality Welfare and Sustainable Development (Living History)
Denmark occupies a unique and influential position in world history and contemporary global affairs. Though small in geographical size and population, the Danish experience offers some of the most compelling lessons in governance, social equality, economic resilience, and environmental sustainabilit...
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Chantal Mouffe
On the Political (Thinking in Action)
Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. What does this mean for political and social life? Is there a 'Third Way' beyond left and right, and if so, should we fear or welcome it? This thought-provoking book ...
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John Maxwell Hamilton
Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize Winner of the AEJMC History Division Book Award Winner of the AJHA Book of the Year Winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize Manipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishme...
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Christopher F. Zurn
Splitsville USA
Splitsville USA argues that it’s time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States into several new nations. Zurn begins by examining the United States’ democratic predicament, a road most likely headed f...
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David Held
Global Governance and Public Accountability
This volume brings together prominent scholars from the fields of politics and international relations in order to explore questions of crucial importance to the creation of an effective, accountable and legitimate system of global governance. - An exploration of questions of crucial importance...
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Scott Aikin
Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason
Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason presents an accessible and engaging introduction to the theory of argument, with special emphasis on the way argument works in public political debate. The authors develop a view according to which proper ar...
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Lasse Thomassen
Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed
Jürgen Habermas' work ranges across critical theory, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of science, citizenship and democracy, religion and psychoanalysis, forging new paradigms and engaging with other key thinkers. Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed is the ideal starting point fo...
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Elizabeth Anderson
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (The University Center for Human Values Series)
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments―and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are―private governments with sweeping authorit...
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David Walsh
The Growth of the Liberal Soul
In The Growth of the Liberal Soul , David Walsh provides a dazzling defense of liberalism by confronting the core difficulty of the liberal democratic tradition in explaining and justifying itself. David Walsh’s groundbreaking work addresses a pivotal crisis in liberal democratic self-understandi...
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Boris Kagarlitsky
The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left (Transnational Institute)
‘Boris Kagarlitsky is a man of enormous intellect and bravery ... I’ve always been stimulated by discussions with Boris and his relationship with thoughtful figures all around the world’ – Jeremy Corbyn MP ‘Perhaps the most prominent Marxist thinker in the post-Soviet space’ – Open...
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Dr Koen P. R. Bartels
Doing Interpretive Research: Learning and Teaching Imagination in Social Research
Interpretivism has an intuitive appeal to many social researchers, but they often feel ill-equipped to do it. Other social researchers tend to believe that interpretivism is a specialized niche with little relevance to their research practice. What has been lost is the awareness that interpretation ...
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Sandy Northrop
American Political Cartoons: The Evolution of a National Identity, 1754-2010, Revised Edition
From Benjamin Franklin's drawing of the first American political cartoon in 1754 to contemporary cartoonists' blistering attacks on George W. Bush and initial love-affair with Barack Obama, editorial cartoons have been a part of American journalism and politics. American Political Cartoons chronic...
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Ja-Sung Oh
Buddha’s Möbius Strip: Gilles Deleuze and Buddhism
1. Now mankind is fighting against the Corona virus. Everyday a lot of people are dying, dead, and suffering by the Corona virus circulating the world. Heavier suffering and burden are given to the economical weak. This is a very serious problem to be solved soon. However, it is only a small tip of ...
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Ronald M Glassman
The Origins of Tyranny: War Chiefs, Divine Kings, Dictators, and Totalitarians
Featuring a uniquely philosophical lens, The Origins of Tyranny: War Chiefs, Divine Kings, Dictators, and Totalitarians provides readers with an exploration of the development of tyranny throughout history within tribes, great empires, city-states, and nations. The book points to the nature of the...
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Christopher R. Berry
Imperfect Union: Representation and Taxation in Multilevel Governments (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
This book offers the first political theory of special purpose jurisdictions, including 35,000 special districts and 13,500 school districts, which constitute the most common form of local government in the United States today. Collectively, special purpose governments have more civilian employees t...
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Kim Wehle
How to Read the Constitution--and Why (Legal Expert Series)
"A must-read for this era."―Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent  An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes―essential readin...
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John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is a classic work of modern ethical theory, widely regarded as the most important articulation and defense of utilitarianism. The book explores the concept of 'utility' (or the 'greatest happiness principle') as the foundation of morals, and attempts to show that...
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Kevin K. Kumashiro
Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice
What does it mean to teach for social justice? Drawing on his own classroom experiences, leading author and educator Kevin K. Kumashiro examines various aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning and their implications for six different subject areas and various grade levels. Celebrating 20 ye...
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