Democracy

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Jeff Bridoux
Democracy Promotion (Interventions)
This critical introduction to democracy promotion seeks to provide students with an understanding of some of the key dynamics and contentions revolving around this controversial policy agenda. Specifically, this textbook examines democracy promotion through seeking to answer, from the perspective of...
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Kurt Weyland
Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat: Countering Global Alarmism
The recent global wave of populist governments, which culminated in Donald Trump's victory in 2016, has convinced many observers that populism is a grave threat to democracy. In his new book, Kurt Weyland critiques recent scholarship for focusing too closely on cases where populist leaders have crus...
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George Novack
Democracy and Revolution
The limitations and advances of various forms of democracy in class society, from its roots in ancient Greece through its rise and decline under capitalism. Discusses the emergence of Bonapartism, military dictatorship, and fascism, and how democracy will be advanced under a workers and farmers regi...
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Joss Sheldon
DEMOCRACY: A User's Guide
THEY SAY WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY. WE ARE FREE AND WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL. But just how "Free" are we? How democratic are our so-called "Democracies"? Is it enough to simply elect our leaders and sit back, helpless, as they rule over us like dictators? What good is selecting our politicians, if we cann...
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Adam Przeworski
Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number 9)
The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook the world in the second part of the eighteenth century: that a people should govern itself. Yet if we judge contemporary democracies by the ideals of self-government, equality, and liberty, we find that...
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Guangbin Yang
Democracy in China: Trajectories and Directions (1978–2020)
Since the reform and opening up, Chinese people’ s concept of democracy has become more mature, and the practice of democracy in China has become more pluralistic. Conceptually, there has been an evolution from a single view of democracy, in which democracy is about elections, to a pluralistic for...
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Larry M. Bartels
Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracy An apparent explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy Erodes from the Top reveals that the rea...
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Larry Diamond
Democracy: A Reader (A Journal of Democracy Book)
Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A Reader brings together the seminal works that have appeared in its pages in nearly twenty years of...
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Alan Keenan
Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure
This book explores the theoretical paradoxes and practical dilemmas that flow from the still radical idea that in a democracy it is the people who rule, and argues that accepting the open and uncertain character of democratic politics can lead to more sustainable and widespread forms of democratic e...
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Christopher H. Achen
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic―and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human n...
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Kevin J. Elliott
Democracy for Busy People
Advances an alternative approach to democratic reform that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics. How do we make democracy more equal? Although in theory, all citizens in a democracy have the right to participate in politics, time-consuming forms ...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
The most faithful and nuanced translation of the definitive work for understanding America Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy . The book he wrote on his retur...
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Jason Hickel
Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa
The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict.  Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANC’s liberal democratic platform and organized themselves in a...
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Gabriel Hetland
Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn
Honorable Mention, 2024 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council for Latin American Studies Is democracy possible only when it is safe for elites? Latin American history seems to suggest so. Right-wing forces have repeatedly deposed elected governments that challenged the rich and accep...
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Heather Cox Richardson
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
A New York Times Bestseller A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era's most important and insightful historians. "Magisterial." -The Washington Post "An excellent primer fo...
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Torben Iversen
Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century
A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each other It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequa...
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Adam Przeworski
Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990 (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number
Is economic development conducive to political democracy? Does democracy foster or hinder material welfare? These two questions are examined by looking at the experiences of 135 countries between 1950 and 1990. Descriptive information, statistical analyses, and historical narratives are interwoven t...
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Frederic Charles Schaffer
Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine grassroots understand...
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Steven Bilakovics
Democracy without Politics
In Western democracies today, politics and politicians are held in contempt by the majority of citizens. Steven Bilakovics argues that this disdain of politics follows neither from the discontents of our liberal political system nor from the preoccupations of a consumer society. Rather, extending To...
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Sophia Rosenfeld
Democracy and Truth: A Short History
"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies—citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no institution or person possessing the authority to settle b...
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