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Meg Russell
The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit
The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might have been handled better, and the role that parliament played. Since the 2016 referendum, the hotly contested issue of Brexit has raised fundamental ques...
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Cameron Ross
John Dewey: A Clear Introduction to the Big Ideas and the Core Concepts
John Dewey refuses the separation of philosophy from lived experience. Against traditions that seek certainty through abstraction, he begins where life becomes problematic, where habits fail and intelligence must respond. Thought is not contemplation but action guided by inquiry. Knowledge, in Dewey...
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Peter Ranis
Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy
Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies. Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglec...
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Mickey Edwards
The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
A penetrating analysis of American democracy’s most urgent threat: a political system so paralyzed by partisanship it is almost incapable of placing national interest ahead of the blind pursuit of political advantage America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held vie...
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Ted V. McAllister
Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison of their thought and its profound influence on contemporary American conservatism. Since the appearan...
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Don H Doyle
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance -- that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model...
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Sidney Tarrow
Movements and Parties (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics – from the Civil War era to the women's rights and civ...
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Pelle Dragsted
Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy
In recent years, the Nordic countries have been the envy of the world for their economic success, institutional stability, and consistently high levels of social happiness. But are they socialist ? Several prominent members of the American right think so. They may find a surprising ally in Pelle Dr...
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Kenneth Paul O'Brien
The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society (Contributions in American History)
This book is a collection of nine essays examining the impact of World War II on the American people. The contributions range from macro studies (the ways corporations sought to recruit women into the work force) to micro studies (the impact of the war on working conditions in Indiana) to biography ...
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Ariane Liazos
Reforming the City: The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890–1930
Most American cities are now administered by appointed city managers and governed by councils chosen in nonpartisan, at-large elections. In the early twentieth century, many urban reformers claimed these structures would make city government more responsive to the popular will. But on the whole, the...
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Gianpaolo Baiocchi
The 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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Robert Paul Wolff
In Defense of Anarchism (with a New Preface)
In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends individualist anarchism. He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutually exclusive and that, as individual autonomy is inalienable, the moral legitimacy of the state collapse...
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Danielle Allen
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” ―Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books Our Declaration has already come to be regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. On the 25...
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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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Mark Weinstein
Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework
“ This is a must-read for anyone concerned with where we are today and looking for a better path forward. ” ―Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Inc. Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad. In the nick of time, Restoring Our Sanity Online presents the bold, revolutionary framework ...
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Brian Loveman
The Politics of Antipolitics: The Military in Latin America (Latin American Silhouettes)
Latin America is moving toward democracy. The region's countries hold elections, choose leaders, and form new governments. But is the civilian government firmly in power? Or is the military still influencing policy and holding the elected politicians in check under the guise of guarding against corr...
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Min Reuchamps
Deliberative Constitution-making (Routledge Studies in Democratic Innovations)
This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges and prospects of deliberative constitution-making are today. It seeks to provide a more complete pic...
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Anne M. Kornhauser
Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a large class of unelected officials. This "leviathan" state was championed by the political left, and its...
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Sheldon S. Wolin
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics)
Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after ...
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John H McManus Ph.D
Don't Be Fooled: A Citizen's Guide to News and Information in the Digital Age
America is being torn apart by the rise of new sources of news that have no respect for facts or democracy. Coupled with politicians who cast honest journalists as frauds and enemies of the public, they are eroding the informational common ground and poisoning the process of reaching consensus that ...
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