Democracy

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James Davison Hunter
Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis
From “the nation’s leading cultural historian” (David Brooks, New York Times ), the long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis   Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions—most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justic...
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David Miles
Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory)
Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and ...
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Robert Pinsky
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry (The University Center for Human Values Series)
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argue...
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James S. Fishkin
Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform
This book proposes a new kind of democracy for the modern era, one that not only gives citizens more power but also allows them more opportunities to exercise this power thoughtfully. James S. Fishkin here suggests an innovative solution to the problem of inadequate deliberation, in particular withi...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
The first English-language edition published in 1838 and translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. with Preface and notes by John C. Spencer. This landmark work initiated a dialogue about the nature of democracy and the United States and its people that continues to this day. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville [1...
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Emmanuelle Avril
Democracy, Participation and Contestation: Civil society, governance and the future of liberal democracy (Democratization and Autocratization Studies)
The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint. Far from it, democratization has been marked by setbacks and victories, a process often referred to as ‘contested democracy’. In view of recent mobilizations such ...
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Andreas Kalyvas
Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt
Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular foundings has not captured the imagination of contemporary political thought. Most of the time, democratic theory and political science treat as the object of their inquiry normal politics, instit...
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Janelle Wong
Democracy's Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (The Politics Of Race And Ethnicity)
Given the massive demographic changes in the United States during the past few decades, understanding the place of immigrants in the public sphere has never been more critical. Democracy's Promise examines both the challenges and opportunities posed to American civic institutions by the presence o...
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James T. Hamilton
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism
In democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and private institutions accountable to the public. From firings and resignations to changes in budgets and laws, the impact of this reporting can be significant―but so too are the costs. As newspapers confront shrinking subscripti...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 mont...
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Jay Cost
Democracy or Republic?: How the Founders Crafted the Constitution as the Blueprint for Self-Government
How do you place the people in charge without creating a democratic tyranny? By the time of the American Revolution, nobody in the history of the world had yet answered this question. In recent years, the Constitution has become a source of political controversy between conservatives and progressi...
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Jill Locke
Democracy and the Death of Shame: Political Equality and Social Disturbance
Is shame dead? With personal information made so widely available, an eroding public/private distinction, and a therapeutic turn in public discourse, many seem to think so. People across the political spectrum have criticized these developments and sought to resurrect shame in order to protect priva...
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Robert Gooding-Williams
Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois’s attempts to answer these questions during the decade surrounding the First World W...
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Thomas David Bunting
Democracy at the Ballpark: Sport, Spectatorship, and Politics
Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy. What is the relationship between sports and politics? Often, politics are thought to be serious, whereas sports are diversionary and apolitical. Using baseball as a case study, Democracy at th...
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Eric W. Robinson
Democracy beyond Athens
What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes has been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy – for which evidence is harder to come by – has received only fleeting attention. Nevertheless, there exists a ...
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Ilya Somin
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter, Second Edition
One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This creates a nation of peo...
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Leonardo Avritzer
Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America
This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "d...
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Cathy J. Cohen
Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
In Democracy Remixed , award-winning scholar Cathy J. Cohen offers an authoritative and empirically powerful analysis of the state of black youth in America today. Utilizing the results from the Black Youth Project, a groundbreaking nationwide survey, Cohen focuses on what young Black Americans act...
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Robert Penn Warren
Democracy and Poetry (Harvard Paperbacks)
In these two essays, one of America’s most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood vital to each. “I really don’t want to make a noise like a pundit,” Mr. Warren declares, “What I do want to do is to return us―and myself m...
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Philip Bunting
Democracy!: A positive primer on people power. Discover what defines a democracy and why your voice matters.
What you say (and how you say it) has the power to change the world. Democracy gives you that power. Democracy is people power. But does democracy  really  matter? How does it work? And what exactly is democracy, anyway?! Get set to speak up and learn how you can create positive change in you...
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