Democracy

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Robert B. Westbrook
John Dewey and American Democracy (Cornell Paperbacks)
Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction that "democracy is freedom" but also to realize his democratic ideals through political activism. Widely considered modern America's most important philos...
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Joseph A. Schumpeter
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
“Joseph Schumpeter’s classic  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy  explains the process of capitalism’s “creative destruction”–a key principle in understanding the logic of globalization." —Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Policy In this definitive third and final edition (1950) of his...
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Ilja A. Luciak
Gender and Democracy in Cuba (Contemporary Cuba)
"Luciak has taken two taboo subjects in Cuban political thought, gender and democracy, and fused them together in an analytically elegant way. Many people shy away from studying democracy in Cuba because it seems such an oxymoron. Luciak's astute analysis makes this book highly original and signific...
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Nathan Pippenger
A Common Country: Solidarity and the Making of American Democracy
As their democracy faces an array of crises Americans confront a recurring question: whether they really constitute a democratic “people” at all. Reactionaries promote a nostalgic ideal of American nationalism, while implying that many of their compatriots don't belong to their imagined nation. ...
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Luke Goode
Jurgen Habermas: Democracy and the Public Sphere (Modern European Thinkers)
Habermas is a hugely influential thinker, yet his writing can be dense and inaccessible. This critical introduction offers undergraduates a clear way into Habermas’s concept of the ‘public sphere’ and its relevance to contemporary society. Luke Goode’s lively account also sheds new light on ...
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Miguel Vatter
Divine Democracy: Political Theology after Carl Schmitt
How secular are the political and legal concepts that underpin liberal democracy? Carl Schmitt first coined the term political theology to show the dependency of modern western jurisprudence and political science on Christian theological discourse, and in so doing criticized the claim to religious n...
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Elzbieta Matynia
Performative Democracy (Yale Cultural Sociology Series)
fresh appreciation of the events of 1989 as we approach their 20th anniversary in 2009 Performative Democracy explores a potential in political life that easily escapes theorists: the indigenously inspired enacting of democracy by citizens. Written by one who experienced an emerging public sphere wi...
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Judah Freed
Making Global Sense: Grounded hope for democracy and the earth inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense (3rd Edition)
Updated 2026 for the 250th anniversary of Common Sense The right book at the right time. - Shows how we got to where we are, and what we can do from here. - Tells why we need No Kings . “Thomas Paine rallied Americans to a new sense of themselves and their possibilities. Judah Freed does likewi...
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Andrew Gumbel
Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America
The updated edition of Steal This Vote ―a rollicking history of US voter suppression and fraud from Jacksonian democracy to Citizens United and beyond.   In Down for the Count , award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States. From Jim C...
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Nikhil Menon
Planning Democracy
The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally contradictory. After nearly two cen...
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Jeffery M. Paige
Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
In the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as death-squad-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua. Yet when the fighting was finally ended by a peace plan in...
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Terry Bouton
Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution
Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the Revolutionary elite often seemed as determined...
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Andrew Gordon
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) (Volume 1)
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can be...
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Trubowitz
Geopolitics and Democracy
A large and widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On issues ranging from immigration and international trade to national security, new political parties on the left and the right are rejecting the core fore...
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Elijah Cummings
We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy – An NAACP Award-Winning Memoir on Oversight and Accountability
One of Essence's Best Books of the Year. NAACP Image Awards Winner for Outstanding Literary Work in the Debut Author category. With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “There was no greater friend to the poor, to the lost, to the left out, and to  the left behind. If you want to understand thi...
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Eric Blanc
Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) (Historical Materialism)
Through extensive archival research in eight different languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy introduces readers to the politics and practices of socialists in Tsarist Russia's imperial borderlands. These parties fought for democracy and workers' power across the entire span of the Russian Empi...
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Professor Leela Gandhi
The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955
Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in  The Common Cause , Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics ...
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Richard Arlington Arlington
KISS your Democracy Bye Bye
The democracy problem in America is a real and urgent issue that requires our immediate attention. Our government has been corrupted by corporate and special interests and our representatives- no longer truly represent the people. The erosion of trust in our leaders and institutions threatens to und...
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Oded Gilad
Global Democracy: The Key to Global Justice
Why is humanity failing to solve the climate crisis, to deal effectively with pandemics, to curb the power of multinational corporations and to create a more equal, just and sustainable world for everyone? This book, based on a series of video lectures on YouTube, provides an answer: it is because o...
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Jennifer L. McCoy
The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela
For four decades, Venezuela prided itself for having one of the most stable representative democracies in Latin America. Then, in 1992, Hugo Chávez Frías attempted an unsuccessful military coup. Six years later, he was elected president. Once in power, Chávez redrafted the 1961 constitution, diss...
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