Democracy

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Brian S. Mueller
Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy
In Democracy's Think Tank , Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in making the world safe for diversity. Unlike defense intellectuals at the RAND Corporation and other think tanks responsible for formulating military strateg...
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Daniel Bessner
Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (The United States in the World)
In Democracy in Exile , Daniel Bessner explores the life of Hans Speier, one of the most significant figures in the history of U.S. defense policy. Bessner traces Speier's intellectual development from Weimar Germany to the Cold War United States, revealing how his European roots shaped the expert...
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Astra Taylor
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” ( LA Times ), provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a ...
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Miguel Abensour
Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Movement
In the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” the young Marx elliptically alludes to a "true democracy" whose advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the state. Miguel Abensour’s rigorous interpretation of this seminal text reveals an “unknown Marx” who undermines the iden...
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Misagh Parsa
Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed
The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal reforms seemed possible. But the opportunity proved short-lived, leaving Iranian activists and intellectu...
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Astra Taylor
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” by the Los Angeles Times , provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we...
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Jason Brennan
Democracy: A Guided Tour
How did “democracy” go from a pejorative label for mob rule to the widely shared ideal of enlightened self-rule? How has it evolved as an idea and a set of practices? How have the ways democracy has been practiced impacted the idea of democracy itself? In this short, accessible book, leading dem...
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Robert A. Dahl
Democracy and Its Critics
In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against the questions raised by its critics, and recasts the...
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Sara Lagi
Democracy in Its Essence: Hans Kelsen as A Political Thinker
Hans Kelsen is commonly associated with legal theory and philosophy of law. Democracy in Its Essence: Hans Kelsen as a Political Thinker instead investigates Kelsen’s democratic theory as it developed between the 1920s and 1950s, which challenged the existence of democracies in many different resp...
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Joan Didion
Democracy (Vintage International)
From t he bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean — a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam ...
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Bonnie Honig
Democracy and the Foreigner
What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy, our culture, our well-being? This dilemma underlies age-old debates about immigration, citizenship, and national identity that are strikingly relevant today. In Democracy and th...
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Jason Brownlee
Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance
When a popular revolt forced long-ruling Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign on February 11, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the victory of peaceful demonstrators in the heart of the Arab World. But Washington was late to endorse democracy – for decades the United States favored Eg...
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Johann N. Neem
Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (How Things Worked)
The unknown history of American public education. At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It’s a story in whi...
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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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Sheri Berman
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first ti...
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Sheri Berman
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first ti...
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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 ...
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Ali Gheissari
Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty
Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis of Evil," a...
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Mark E. Warren
Democracy and Trust (Volume 0)
Is declining trust in government and in other citizens bad for democracy? Bringing together social science and political theory, this book analyzes the relationship between democracy and trust. Trust can develop where interests converge, but in politics interests conflict. Democracy includes a healt...
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Sofia Näsström
Democracy in Ten Questions
In an age of rising authoritarianism, political polarization, and democratic backsliding, Democracy in Ten Questions offers a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the enduring debates over the value of democracy. This concise yet comprehensive book introduces key issues, including what demo...
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