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Christopher J. Coyne
Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror
The U.S. government's prime enemy in the War on Terror is not a shadowy mastermind dispatching suicide bombers. It is the informed American citizen. With Manufacturing Militarism , Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall detail how military propaganda has targeted Americans since 9/11. From the d...
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Zeynep Pamuk
Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society
A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuc...
$23.97
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Joseph Cho-wai Chan
Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times (The Princeton-China Series)
Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance that can retain the spirit of the Confucian ideal while tackling problems arising from ...
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Danielle Allen
Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies
Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat c...
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Brendan C. Lindsay
Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, ...
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Mark Steven Anderson
This Life: Poems of Conscience and Renewal
THIS LIFE A Poetry Collection by Mark Anderson In This Life , Mark Anderson offers a stirring collection of poems that reflect on freedom, democracy, truth, conscience, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. Written in a voice that blends lyrical meditation with prophetic clarity, thes...
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Richard M. Valelly
The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
A groundbreaking history of the Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Eras that reveals the importance of biracial coalitions The Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders. Yet this hard-won progress...
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Eric A Posner
Demagogue's Playbook
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick What Happens to Democracy When a Demagogue Comes to Power? "It is hard to imagine understanding the Trump presidency and its significance without reading this book.” ―Bob Bauer, Former Chief Counsel to President Barack Obama What―and who...
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Wendy Brown
Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory (TRIOS)
Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked onl...
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Nathan Crick
Dewey for a New Age of Fascism: Teaching Democratic Habits (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)
During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat to democracy was not a political regime or even an aggressive foreign power but rather a set of dispositions or attitudes. Though not fascist in and of ...
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Bernard Manin
The Principles of Representative Government (Themes in the Social Sciences)
The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic elements. Challenging the conventionally held views on the subject, Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and demo...
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Hsiu-lien Lu
My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power
Lu Hsiu-lien’s journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan’s evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of ...
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Hesham Sallam
Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics)
Since the 1970s, the Egyptian state has embarked on a far-reaching and destabilizing project of economic liberalization, reneging on its commitments to social welfare. Despite widespread socioeconomic grievances stemming from these policies, class politics and battles over wealth redistribution have...
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Shirley Samuels
Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy In Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and...
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Zephyr Teachout
Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over almost ...
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Philip K. Howard
Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
“Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no.” Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Schools can’t work, bad cops can’t be fired, and politicians sell their souls for unio...
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Jan Teorell
Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972–2006
What are the determinants of democratization? Do the factors that move countries toward democracy also help them refrain from backsliding toward autocracy? This book attempts to answer these questions through a combination of a statistical analysis of social, economic, and international determinants...
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Michael Waldman
The Fight to Vote
Praised by the late John Lewis, this is the seminal book about the long and ongoing struggle to win voting rights for all citizens by the president of The Brennan Center, the leading organization on voter rights and election security, now newly revised to describe today’s intense fights over votin...
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Anneke Campbell
We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States
We the People offers powerful portraits of communities across the United States that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by successfully banning those projects at a local level. We hear the inspiring voices of ordinary citizens and activists practici...
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Hardy Merriman
Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave
A powerful autocratic wave is sweeping the globe. Over the last 17 years, no country remains untouched. Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave builds on a growing body of research that finds that civil resistance movements-using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and a range of oth...
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