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Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized ...
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Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the
The January 6th Report
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** NOTE: The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693–716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endnotes and witness testimony transcripts. Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the S...
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Richard Lawrence Miller
Senators Beholden to the People: Lincoln and the Doctrine of Instruction
The American Republic's founders debated whether to have a government based on direct democracy (in which the general population decided public policy questions, as in a New England town meeting) or representative democracy (in which those decisions were made by senators and congressmen on behalf of...
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Arthur I. Blaustein
Make a Difference: America's Guide to Volunteering and Community Service
Do you want to become a volunteer but feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of organizations to choose from? Look no further than this revised edition of the bestselling book Make a Difference ! Complied and written by Arthur Blaustein, adjunct professor of social and urban policy at the University...
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Steven Levitsky
Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America
Nearly four decades since the onset of the third wave, political parties remain weak in Latin America: parties have collapsed in much of the region, and most new party-building efforts have failed. Why do some new parties succeed while most fail? This book challenges the widespread belief that democ...
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John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a seminal work of classic political philosophy. Published in 1869, it is one of the earliest and most influential works on feminism and the struggle for gender equality. Mill argues that the subjugation of women is a violation of their basic human ri...
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Stephen V. Tracy
Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader
Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sour...
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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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Martin Krygier
Anti-Constitutional Populism (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Around the world, populist parties have sprung up in formerly and formally liberal-democratic polities, challenging their existing political parties and leaders, and frequently overwhelming them. These challenges and successes were rarely predicted, arriving so soon after the wave of liberal democra...
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Teresa Ruel
Political Alternation in the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands (Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance)
“In this innovative study, Dr Ruel explores why political alternation―a bedrock of democratic functioning―has been largely absent in three under-studied regions in Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Madeira, the Azores and the Canary Islands, this book explains how party competition, intra-party ...
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Peniel E. Joseph
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction , distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The ra...
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Bertell Ollman
The United States Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-Federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraking, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism
"How can anyone claim to really understand our Constitution without knowing what these critical traditions had to say?" —Michael Wallace, Professor of History, John Jay College. "A real contribution to the subject of democracy and liberalism." —John Ehrenberg. "Does a marvelous job of returning th...
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Hayanan Thevaranjan
A NATION RUN BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A Rise Of an AI President
A Nation Run by Artificial Intelligence : The Rise of an AI President What happens when democracy upgrades? In a world drowning in political corruption, misinformation, economic instability, and broken promises, one nation makes a radical decision: They elect an Artificial Intelligence as President...
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Robert Michels
Political Parties
The principle of self-government through political parties, the cornerstone of democracy, has come to be regarded as a solution to the problem of nationality. This is because the principle of nationality entails the acceptance of the idea of popular government. The importance of the principle of nat...
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Mark Bowden
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
“A gripping ground-level narrative…a marvel of reporting: tightly wound… but also panoramic.”— Washington Post “A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks.”— New York Times In The Steal , veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-wee...
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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...
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Lester Leavitt
Allegory Protocol: Book 3 of the Driftless Rivers Trilogy (Driftless Rivers Series)
In Rich Coulee, Illinois, widower Nick Anderson tends his wife's grave and asks questions nobody wants to answer. Federal grants for "election security upgrades" don't add up. The numbers are identical across counties of vastly different sizes. The timeline feels rushed. And Nick's journalist instin...
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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...
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Jon Meacham
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln f...
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Amy E. Black
Civil Religion and the Renewal of American Politics (Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society)
American culture is evolving rapidly as a result of shifts in its religious landscape. American civil religion is robust enough to make room for new perspectives, as religious pluralism is foundational for democracy. Moreover, as Amy Black and Douglas L. Koopman argue, American religion and politic...
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