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Jacoby Adeshei Carter
African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures: A Critical Edition of Lectures by Alain Locke (African American Philosophy and the African
This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature, and culture of various American...
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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...
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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 ...
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Gershom Gorenberg
The Unmaking of Israel
Prominent Israeli journalist GershomGorenberg offers a penetrating and provocativelook at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism,threatening the prospects for peace and democracy as the Israeli-Palestinianconflict intensifies. Informing his examination using interviews in I...
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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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Emmy Eklundh
The Populist Manifesto
This volume brings together a range of scholars dissatisfied with the mainstream of the populism debate. It intends to bring forward a perspective which envisions populism not simply as a negative aspect of politics, but as a way of doing politics. Contemporary politics has been characterised by t...
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Frank Fischer
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge
The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citizens who actively challenge the imposition of expert theories that ignore forms of local knowledge that can help to r...
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Julie Haase
Asha and Kota's America: Election Trail
Embark on a Joyful Journey with Asha and Kota's America: Election Trail - A Tale of Friendship, Democracy, and Fun for All Ages! Welcome to the charming world of Asha and Kota's America: Election Trail , where the spirit of democracy comes alive in the most enchanting way possible. In the bustlin...
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Keith C. Barton
Teaching History for the Common Good
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical th...
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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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Walter Lippmann
Public Opinion (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
In his groundbreaking work Public Opinion (1922), Walter Lippmann, an eminent American writer and political commentator, delves into the intricate dynamics of democracy, shedding light on the pivotal role of citizens. He warns against the perils of propaganda, anticipating its sway on public perce...
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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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Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life
The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic...
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John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
On Liberty , written by the renowned nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill in 1859, is an influential work that profoundly shaped the course of modern thought. This classic work examines the nature and limits of governmental control over individuals, arguing that individuals should be fr...
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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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Robert B. Reich
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America (Vintage)
For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor , this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason , one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that’s also a guide for ...
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Paul O. Carrese
The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism
How did the US judiciary become so powerful—powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In The Cloaking of Power , Paul O. Carrese provides a provocative analysis o...
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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...
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Chapman Rackaway
Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform
Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government. The last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative partisanship, decreasing voter turnout, and decreasi...
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