Democracy

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Robert Hopkins
Uncommon Sense
When Thomas Paine completed the writing of Common Sense in the 1770s, he had no clear idea that his work would be so widely read. He could not have foreseen that it would be so significant to the essence of the experiment in American revolution and democracy that it became. The experiment which bega...
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Robert A. Pape
Our Own Worst Enemies: America and the Age of Violent Populism
The nation’s leading expert on political violence diagnoses the gravest threat to American democracy—and how to overcome it The January 6th riot, the attempted kidnapping of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the shootings of Minnesota legislators, the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, attacks ...
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Tarek Masoud
Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt (Problems of International Politics)
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in t...
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Richard D. Brown
The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
Thomas Jefferson’s conviction that the health of the nation’s democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today’s debates over education reform and the need to be competitive...
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Wolfgang Streeck
Taking Back Control?: States and State Systems After Globalism
“This maverick thinker is the Karl Marx of our time…In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been...
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Politics: The Central Texts
This selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s three-volume Politics presents an explanatory theory of society and a program for social reconstruction as a radical alternative to Marxism and social democracy. The explanatory part of the work rejects the search for a lawlike science...
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David Dyzenhaus
Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism
While antiliberal legal theorist Carl Schmitt has long been considered by Europeans to be one of this century’s most significant political philosophers, recent challenges to the fundamental values of liberal democracies have made Schmitt’s writings an unavoidable subject of debate in North Ameri...
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Bradley J. Birzer
American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll (Lives of the Founders)
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder. Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence—was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll's signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked, but ...
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Chantal Mouffe
The Return of the Political (Phronesis)
In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics. He suggests that the democratic revolution may be jeopardized by a lack of understanding of citizenship, community and plura...
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Diane Kalen-Sukra
Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right time." — IRA BASEN , CBC Radio Toxic culture is eroding our sense of belonging, community and well-being. Our capacity to collaborate and...
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Bradley J. Birzer
American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll (Lives of the Founders)
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder. Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence—was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll's signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked, but ...
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Andrew R. Parnell
The Forgotten Man: Walter Hines Page, New South Visionary
The Forgotten Man is a biography of Walter Hines Page (1855–1918), a turn of the nineteenth-century North Carolinian writer, newspaper and magazine editor, political and educational reformer, and U.S. ambassador to Britain during the first World War. Page stood up to self-serving Southern politic...
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David Van Deusen
Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017–2023
Insurgent Labor tracks the trials and tribulations of bringing a formerly stagnant labor council into national relevance with an unapologetically left-wing agenda. David Van Deusen charts the rise of the UNITED! slate to create a progressive and militant labor organization. He chronicles the many v...
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Norman Eisen
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants   When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fl...
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Neal P. McCluskey
The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society
American public schooling was established to unify diverse people and prepare citizens for democracy. Intuitively, it would teach diverse people the same values, preferably in the same buildings, with the goal that they will learn to get along and uphold government by the people. But intuition can b...
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Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time
In Liberty or Equality, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn first examines the historical and current meanings of both democracy and liberalism, demonstrating why the two do not necessarily coincide. He then puts forward a series of propositions, the first of which is that the impulse of democracy as popular ...
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Reuven Y. Hazan
The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society
This publication offers the most wide-ranging examination to date of an intriguing country, one that is often misunderstood. It serves as a comprehensive reference for the growing field of Israel studies and is also a significant resource for students and scholars of comparative politics, recognizin...
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Josep M. Colomer
Constitutional Polarization
In this book, Josep M. Colomer argues, against much conventional wisdom, that political polarization is embedded in the constitutional design. The book puts forth that sustained conflict and institutional gridlock are not mainly questions of character, personalities, or determined by socioeconomic o...
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Judith Gruber
Controlling Bureaucracies: Dilemmas in Democratic Governance
How can citizens of a democracy exercise control over government officials in ways that allow for effective government? In this book, Professor Gruber merges a sophisticated analysis with empirical research to develop a new approach to this perennial problem. "The author treats the classic problem o...
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Ben Jackson
Equality and the British Left: A study in progressive political thought, 1900–64 (Critical Labour Movement Studies)
The demand for equality has been at the heart of the politics of the Left in the twentieth century, but what did theorists and politicians on the British Left mean when they said they were committed to ‘equality’? How did they argue for a more egalitarian society? Which policies did they think c...
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