Democracy

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Rosalyn Deutsche
Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse)
Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates—and protests against—the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary disco...
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Lawrence Jacobs
Making America Healthier: The Affordable Care Act and Civic Renewal
Health reform didn't just expand coverage, it reshaped American politics. The Affordable Care Act's journey reveals how inclusive policy can build public trust, soften partisan divides, and redefine civic engagement. Can a bold new social program foster a supportive constituency that helps sustain...
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Jennet Kirkpatrick
Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics
Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violenc...
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Gilmore Crosby
Diversity Without Dogma
This book is for anyone who wants to decrease racism and other forms of prejudice. The focus is on the United States, but the same principles apply anywhere. The debate should not be whether we are pro-DEI or anti-DEI, but rather whether we are anti-prejudice, anti-discrimination, and pro-democrac...
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Colin Woodard
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of the exploits of infamous Caribbean buccaneers during the Golden Age of Piracy. In the early eighteent...
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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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Clifford P. Harbour
John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education
'Honorable Mention' 2016 PROSE Award - Education Theory Today, community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates in the United States. In the years ahead, these institutions are expected to serve an even larger share of this student population. However, faced with increasing government pressure ...
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Marco Chateau
THE SHADOWS OF THE ECCLESIA: The broken oath of a philosopher hoplite
When democracy falters: a historical game book set in ancient Athens. Athens, 429 BC. In the midst of the Peloponnesian War, the first democracy in history is weakened by fear, urgency and civic weariness. Behind the apparent functioning of the institutions, a discreet power is organising itself, co...
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Auron MacIntyre
The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies
The Total State pulls back the veil on the new American authoritarianism and why the same system of liberal democracy we say we cherish may have led us to our present state The modern United States is a nation full of censorship, lockdowns, riots, and political persecution. How did the land of t...
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We The People Side Embroidered Flexfit Hat Constitutional Rights Patriotic Apparel Black Grey Navy Red Olive Royal Blue
98% cotton, 2% spandex Spandex sweatband retains shape; Silver underbill 6-panel, structured, mid-profile 3" crown Eight-row stitching on bill Hard buckram backed front panels The "We The People" Side Embroidered Flexfit Hat is not just an accessory; it's a powerful symbol of democracy, unity, and t...
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Halil Karaveli
Why Turkey is Authoritarian: Right-Wing Rule from Atatürk to Erdogan (Left Book Club)
For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turkey is Authoritarian offers a radical challenge to this conventional narrative. Halil Karaveli highlights the danger in viewing events in Turkey as a war b...
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Richard Rorty
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
“Provocative and engaging…The array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rorty’s voice: insistent, relentlessly questioning, and dedicated to the proposition that we can’t afford to let our democracy fail.” ―Chris Lehmann, New Republic “Richard ...
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David Held
Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus
In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the western coalitions responded to th...
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John Maxwell Hamilton
Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize Winner of the AEJMC History Division Book Award Winner of the AJHA Book of the Year Winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize Manipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishme...
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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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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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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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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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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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Rüdiger Barth
The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic: The Rise of the Third Reich
A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler’s frightening rise to power. November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between rival political parties, the Weimar Republic is o...
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