Democracy

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Tzvetan Todorov
Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system...
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Jacques Lezra
Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic
Wild Materialism speaks to three related questions in contemporary political philosophy. How, if different social interests and demands are constitutively antagonistic, can social unity emerge out of heterogeneity? Does such unity require corresponding universals, and, if so, what are they, where a...
$38.00
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Kenneth Dantzler-Corbin
Racial Politics and Power: Historical Roots of Modern Policy
How has the American legal system shaped the struggle for racial justice, citizenship, and democracy? This book offers a powerful historical and constitutional examination of how law, politics, and social power have interacted to shape the lives of African Americans and the development of American d...
$25.00
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Helen Fein
Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide
Human Rights and Wrongs explains the persistence of crimes against humanity since the Holocaust-including slavery, terror, and genocide. Using extended country descriptions and analyses, the book goes beyond case studies to explain such gross human rights violations in terms of an integrated theory ...
$41.46
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Tamás Nyirkos
The Tyranny of the Majority
Tamás Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "tyranny of the majority" for the study of democracy today. The analysis is divided into three parts: the first discusses the "prehistory" of majority tyranny; the second reviews the elements of the "standard theory" i...
$44.79
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Patrick Emmenegger
The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the many different facets of the Swiss political system and of the major developments in modern Swiss politics. It brings together a diverse set of more than 50 leading experts in their respective areas, who explore Switzerland's distinctive and somet...
$107.99
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Stephen L. Carter
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion
The Culture Of Disbelief has  been the subject of an enormous amount of media  attention from the first moment it was published.  Hugely successful in hardcover, the Anchor paperback  is sure to find a large audience as the  ever-increasing, enduring debate about the relationship of  ch...
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Jennifer Gordon
Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all; her employer lied about establishing a savings account for...
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Jiang Qing
A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future (The Princeton-China Series)
What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political future As China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own...
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Raoul Martinez
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future
A profound and radical manifesto calling for a transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and ourselves. Freedom has long been a foundational concept at the heart of our civilization. Free markets, free media, free speech--even in these politically divided times, freedom is one ...
$17.00
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Puzzlewright Press
Big Liberal Book of Word Search Puzzles: Liberalism-Themed Word Search Puzzles
🧩 50 Fun Word Searches 🌈 Celebrate Liberal Values 👓 Large Print 🎁 Perfect Gift for Progressives Who Love Democracy & Equality! 🌟 Celebrate liberal values and sharpen your mind—one puzzle at a time! 🌟 Whether you’re a lifelong progressive or simply passionate about 🗳...
$9.99
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Volker Ullrich
Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
MP3 CD Format From the New York Times bestselling historian, the riveting story of the Weimar Republic―a fledgling democracy beset by chaos and extremism―and its dissolution into the Third Reich. Democracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate...
$38.13
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Thomas Paine
Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions: Political Science)
One of the most influential writers and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine successfully publicized the issues of his time in pamphlets that clearly and persuasively argued for political independence and social reform. Rights of Man , his greatest and most widely read work, is considered a classic s...
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Olivier Zunz
Philanthropy in America: A History - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America)
How philanthropy has shaped America in the twentieth century American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American...
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David Schweickart
After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)
In After Capitalism, David Schweickart moves beyond the familiar arguments against globalizing capitalism to contribute something absolutely necessary and long overdue--a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative to capitalism. He names this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to ...
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Xiaobo Liu
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called “incitement to subvert state power.” In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long statement the activist had prepared for his 2009 tr...
$23.00
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Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Citizens and the State (Beliefs in Government)
It is generally believed that the relationship between citizens and the state in Western European democracies has undergone a fundamental change in the last decades. Many observers regard this change as a challenge to representative democracy. This book addresses the problem form the citizen's persp...
$61.00
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Donald T. Critchlow
American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Sho...
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Justin Moeller
Removal of the Property Qualification for Voting in the United States: Strategy and Suffrage (Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance)
In Colonial America, democracy was centered in provincial assemblies and based on the collection of neighbors whose freehold ownership made them permanent stakeholders in the community. The removal of the property qualification for voting in the United States occurred over three-quarters of a centur...
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Gerald Leonard
The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois (Studies in Legal History)
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea...
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