Democracy

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David Reynolds
Democracy Unbound: Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System
Expains how grassroots activists are translating mass discontent into new people-driven parties. The first and only book to look beyond the superficial media coverage of Ross Perot to the real movement for fundamental change. The millions of people who voted for Ross Perot, Jesse Jackson, and Ralph ...
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John L. Safford
Democracy is Dangerous: Resisting the Tyranny of the Majority
In Democracy is Dangerous, Safford maintains that democracy is disadvantageous to economic and intellectual elites. The author dwells upon the problem of "the tyranny of the majority," which Alexis de Tocqueville employed to describe American democracy, and which Lani Guinier also used to describe t...
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Kathleen M. Blee
Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form (Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics)
Winner of the 2012 ARNOVA Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award 2013 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements " Democracy in the Making offers a marvelous synthesis of sociological ...
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Henry Adams
Democracy: An American Novel (Modern Library Classics)
An immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1880, the anonymously penned Democracy prompted widespread speculation and guessing games as to its author’s identity. It is the story of Mrs. Lightfoot Lee, a society widow, and Silas Ratcliffe, the most influential member of the Senate, who, thro...
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J. Eric Oliver
Democracy in Suburbia.
Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond popular stereotypes, Democracy in Suburbia answers these questions by examining how suburbs influe...
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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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Hamilton
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism
Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Winner of the Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Winner of the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mas...
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Heather Cox Richardson
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Random House Large Print)
From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson lau...
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Kenn d'Oudney
Democracy Defined: The Manifesto
NEW 2025 EDITION. See back cover for Reviews of the essays on which this book is based. SO, YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT ‘DEMOCRACY’ MEANS? The word ‘democracy’ is widely abused and ‘defined’ incorrectly. This eye-opening book explains exactly what the word democracy really implies. It dem...
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Paulin Ismard
Democracy’s Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece
The ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known is the administrator who ran the state but who was himself a slave. Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to the cradle of Wes...
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Guisela Latorre
Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (Global Latin/o Americas)
Guisela Latorre’s  Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile  documents and critically deconstructs the explosion of street art that emerged in Chile after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, providing the first broad analysis of the visual vocabulary of Chile’s...
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Atul Kohli
Democracy and Inequality in India
Contemporary India provides a giant and complex panorama that deserves to be understood. Through in-depth analysis of democracy, economic growth and distribution, caste, labour, gender, and foreign policy, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali provide a framework for understanding recent political and economi...
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Claude Lefort
Democracy and Political Theory
This book examines the central questions of democracy and politics in modern societies. Through an analysis of some of the key texts of 19th and 20th century thought - from Marx, Michelet and de Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt - the author explores the ambiguities of democracy, the nature of human righ...
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Carles Boix
Democracy and Redistribution (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions. It is one in which political regimes ultimately depend on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. ...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America / De la démocratie en Amérique (in four volumes): Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States. From Tocqueville’s copious notes of what he had seen and heard came the classic text  De la Démocratie en Amérique , first published in two large volumes, one in 1835, the second in 1840. The first volu...
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K. Sabeel Rahman
Democracy Against Domination
The 2008 collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, raising deep moral and institutional questions about the problems of economic inequality and economic power on the one hand, and the tensions between democracy and bureaucrat...
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Michael K. MacKenzie
Democracy and the Future: Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems
This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists and policy experts to examine how democratic systems might be designed so that the long-term consequences of our decisions are considered in policymaking processes. It examines these topics from ma...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (Gateway Editions)
This classic analysis of America’s unique political character is quoted heavily by politicians and perennially pops up on history professors’ reading lists. The enduring appeal of Democracy in America lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), a French ari...
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Jussi Kurunmäki
Democracy in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the ...
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Sadie T. M. Alexander
Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander
The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander — the first Black American economist “Sadie Alexander embodies the Black feminist saying, 'the political is personal.' Her speeches brilliantly intertwine economics and law a...
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