Democracy

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Erik Mobrand
Top-Down Democracy in South Korea (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea , Erik Mobrand documents another part – the...
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Benjamin Studebaker
The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut
This book argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if...
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Robert Adlington
Musical Models of Democracy
Music's role in animating democracy--whether through protests and demonstrations, as a vehicle for political identity, or as a means of overcoming social divides--is well understood. Yet musicians have also been drawn to the potential of embodying democracy itself through musical processes and relat...
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Martín Plot
The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière
This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is deve...
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John Parkinson
Deliberative Systems: Deliberative Democracy at the Large Scale (Theories of Institutional Design)
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political a...
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Michel Callon
Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy (Inside Technology)
A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology. Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbesto...
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Hubert J. M. Hermans
Inner Democracy: Empowering the Mind Against a Polarizing Society
Inner Democracy: Empowering the Mind Against a Polarizing Society investigates the psychological backgrounds of contemporary societal problems such as hate speech, authoritarianism, and divisive forms of identity politics, and how we can counter such destructive forces. The book argues that a democ...
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Joshua Block
Teaching for a Living Democracy: Project-Based Learning in the English and History Classroom
This classroom narrative explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. Written by an English and history teacher in a Philadelphia public high school, this book presents a framework of tea...
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Rachel Bitecofer
Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy “Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats’ status quo narratives around political engagem...
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Joan C. Tronto
Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice
A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the center Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the Un...
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Michaele L. Ferguson
Sharing Democracy
It is frequently assumed that the "people" must have something in common or else democracy will fail. This assumption that democracy requires commonality - such as a shared nationality, a common culture, or consensus on a core set of values - sets theorists and political actors alike on a futile sea...
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August H. Nimtz Jr
Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic'
While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. August J. Nimtz argues that Marx, unlike Tocqueville, not only recognized that the overthrow of slavery and the cessation of r...
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Victor Pickard
America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform (Communication, Society and Politics)
How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media ...
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Nancy Isenberg
The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
"Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over partisanship." --The Wall Street Journal How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our...
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Samuel E. Quainoo
Transitions and Consolidation of Democracy in Africa (Global Academic Publishing)
Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa. What conditions motivate a transition to democracy? Can the dynamics of a transition influence its outcome? Under what circumstances has democracy been consolidated in Africa? This trilogy of questions has become necessary in light of the current de...
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Joel Farrell
The Radical Greek Idea: Democracy in Ancient Athens
A new, bold, radical idea emerged in ancient Athens in 508 BCE, the concept that the people could rule themselves. Democracy today is equated with good, just government, but in ancient Greece, it still had a lot to prove. The Athenians embraced democracy in its purest form: direct democracy in which...
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Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Capitalist Development and Democracy
It is a commonplace claim of Western political discourse that capitalist development and democracy go hand in hand. Cross-national statistical research on political democracy supports this claim. By contrast, comparative historical studies carried out within a political economy approach argue that e...
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Gail Webster
A Reminder of What Democracy Is: Clarity, Courage, and Everyday Action for a Stronger Future
Stop feeling powerless. Start understanding. Does the news leave you frustrated, confused, or wondering if your voice even matters anymore? In today’s nonstop political noise, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Arguments dominate social media, misinformation spreads faster than facts, and many peopl...
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Diego Fossati
The Meaning of Democracy in Southeast Asia (Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia)
This Element contributes to existing research with an analysis of public understandings of democracy based on original surveys fielded in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It conceptualises democracy as consisting of liberal, egalitarian and participatory ideals, and inve...
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Nathan Gardels
Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism (Volume 1) (Great Transformations)
The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challe...
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