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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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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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FOLEY
BALLOT BATTLES
The 2000 presidential race resulted in the highest-profile ballot battle in over a century. But it is far from the only American election determined by a handful of votes and marred by claims of fraud. Since the founding of the nation, violence frequently erupted as the votes were being counted, and...
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Benjamin R. Barber
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy’s best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem para...
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David Schweickart
After Capitalism, 2nd Edition (New Critical Theory)
Since first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activists alike a coherent vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. David Schweickart calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths ...
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Isabelle Ferreras
Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy
An urgent and deeply resonant case for the power of workplace democracy to restore balance between economy and society. What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding, and they have been laid bare by t...
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Harry Dunn
Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th
New York Times  Bestseller With a new afterword for the paperback edition: the stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one of the most prominent and essential voices regarding the truth of that day, and “a must-read for those care about our na...
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Geoffrey Robertson QC
The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran, 1988: Report of an Inquiry Conducted by Geoffrey Robertson QC
As the world wonders what can be done with the leaders of Iran, this report by a leading UN jurist establishes that many of them – including the Supreme Leader – committed an international crime when they approved and carried out a secret massacre of thousands of political prisoners. This atroci...
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E. Dolman
The Warrior State: How Military Organization Structures Politics
Putting into question the conventional view that the military is detrimental to democratic development, Dolman provides a multifaceted examination of the institutional incentives of the military and its relations with civilian authorities. Drawing on classical political theory, a wide range of histo...
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John Burt
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict
In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism , John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the lin...
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Benjamin Ginsberg
The Imperial Presidency and American Politics
Those who saw Donald Trump as a novel threat looming over American democracy and now think the danger has passed may not have been paying much attention to the political developments of the past several decades. Trump was merely the most recent―and will surely not be the last―in a long line of p...
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Thomas Christiano
The Rule of the Many: Fundamental Issues in Democratic Theory (Focus Series)
There is no problem more crucial to contemporary political thought than the status of democracy, its role, and its problems in the contemporary world. In this survey of democratic theory, Thomas Christiano introduces the reader to the principles underlying democracy and to the problems involved in a...
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Charles Derber
Wired for Authoritarianism: American Oligarchies and How to Re-Wire America for the People (Universalizing Resistance)
In contrast to much of the current literature that treats Trump’s authoritarianism as new and singular, this book shows that authoritarianism in the United States instead has a long history that explains the extent to which authoritarianism has been embraced by large sections of US voters. Wired f...
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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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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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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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Ian Shapiro
Uncommon Sense
A spirited defense of the Enlightenment against assaults from both the left and the right that explains its urgent implications for our contemporary politics   Ours is an age when optimism about politics is hard to come by. Ian Shapiro explains why this is so and, without minimizing the daunting...
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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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Namhee Lee
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea
In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from minjung (people) to simin (citizen), fro...
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John Stuart Mill
Socialism
John Stuart Mill's Socialism is an essential text for serious students of political philosophy. This classic work collects Mill's essays on the nature of socialism and its implications for the future of society. Mill's penetrating analysis of the potential of socialism to reshape the relationship...
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