Democracy

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Sheldon S. Wolin
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism - New Edition
Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated , Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where econo...
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Patti Tamara Lenard
Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views (The Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics)
Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditions is not well understood. some but not all commitments with it (feminism, Classical and Egalitarian variants of Liberalism). Ethical theories, by thei...
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James S. Fishkin
Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democr...
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Ines Valdez
Democracy and Empire
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material basis of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, i.e., self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capit...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (Deluxe Library Edition) (Annotated)
Democracy in America examines the democratic revolution Tocqueville believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years. The primary focus of the book is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. ...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Democracy in America examines the democratic revolution Tocqueville believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years. The primary focus of the book is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. ...
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Peter Smith
Democracy in Latin America
Democracy in Latin America , Third Edition, examines processes of democratization in Latin America from 1900 to the present. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this new edition provides a widespread view of political transformation throughout the entire region. Adroitly blending qualitative and quant...
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Ricardo Blaug
Democracy: A Reader
Democracy is an essential collection of source texts by major historical figures on the value of democracy, key concepts and practices, theoretical perspectives, and contemporary challenges. The volume includes reflections on democracy by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Madison, Mill, Lincoln, and Paine. It f...
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Pierre Rosanvallon
Democracy Past and Future (Political Thought / Political History)
Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life. One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new readi...
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James S. Fishkin
Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democr...
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John Atkinson Hobson
Democracy after the War
"Democracy after the War" is a 1917 treatise by English social scientist and economist John Atkinson Hobson. Within it, Hobson explores the idea of democracy in the light of the First World War by looking at it's main obstacles and how true democracy might be realized in the future. John Atkinson Ho...
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Ann Jones
Democracy Lost and Found: USA and Norway
Democracy Lost and Found focuses on the gradual development of two diametrically opposed views of “democracy” in two profoundly different countries: Norway, with its egalitarian social democracy built from the ground up, and the USA, now a plutocracy, built from the top down to produce, as the ...
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HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII
DEMOCRACY: What Went Wrong and How to Make It Right (Neo-Holism: The Soul of the State)
Democracy promised liberty, equality, and justice — but what went wrong? From ancient Athens to the parliaments of today, democracy has been celebrated as the highest form of governance. Yet history reveals a harsher truth: most democracies collapse under corruption, division, or tyranny. Why do e...
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Ian Shapiro
Democracy's Values (Contemporary Political Theory)
Democracy's flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition are all positive features of political institutions. But democracy fits uneasily with many other political values and is in many respects less than equal to the demands it confr...
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Harold Dwight Lasswell
Democracy Through Public Opinion
Democracy Through Public Opinion is a book written by Harold Dwight Lasswell that explores the role of public opinion in democracy. The book provides an in-depth analysis of how public opinion is formed, how it influences political decisions, and how it can be measured and manipulated.Lasswell argue...
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Jodi Dean
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its...
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Robert Goodrich
Democracy in Crisis: Weimar Germany, 1929-1932 (Reacting to the Past™)
Democracy in Crisis explores one of the world’s greatest failures of democracy in Germany during the so-called Weimar Republic, 1919–33—a failure that led to the Third Reich. For more than a decade after World War I, liberalism, nationalism, conservatism, social democracy, Christian democracy...
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Alexis de Toqueville
Democracy In America, Volume 1 of 2
Democracy In America, Volume 1 of 2 by Alexis de Toqueville De la démocratie en Amérique published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually enti...
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Sally Banes
Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theatre, 1962–1964
Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. JDT started when Robert Dunn, a student of John...
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Abbey Steele
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War
Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars' work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the co...
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