Democracy

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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: The United States Since the New Deal (American Business, Politics, and Society)
A collection of essays exploring the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts today Changes to the meaning and nature of work, capitalism, and democracy during and after the New Deal have been contested from the mid-twentieth century to the present...
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Carmen Sirianni
Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance
The health of American democracy ultimately depends on our willingness and ability to work together as citizens and stakeholders in our republic. Government policies often fail to promote such collaboration. But if designed properly, they can do much to strengthen civic engagement. That is the centr...
$54.95
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Cal Jillson
American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure
American Government: Constitutional Democracy Under Pressure highlights the necessary tension between our constitutional principles and institutions and the populist heat that sometimes roils our national politics, especially at the current political moment. Our constitutional democracy has been un...
$70.94
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Michael J. Lansing
Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to thirteen ...
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Jon Elster
Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number 1)
It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, which is decision by discussion or deliberation. This volume is characterized by a realistic approach to the issue of deliberative democracy....
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Navdanya International
Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture
"Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens' Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture details how global philanthrocapitalist organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and affiliated entities effectively monopolize and privatize co...
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K. R. Slattery
Mastering American Democracy: A Guide to the U.S. Government for Citizens and Leaders
The Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Engaging with the U.S. Government In a time when democracy faces new challenges and civic engagement has never been more crucial, "Mastering American Democracy" delivers the essential knowledge every citizen, student, and leader needs. Whether you're a high ...
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Steven P. Camicia
Education for Democracy: A Renewed Approach to Civic Inquiries for Social Justice (Teaching and Learning Social Studies)
This book presents a vision of education for democracy built around promoting equity and social justice. In doing so, Camicia and Knowles challenge many of the common perspectives of democratic education, deliberation, and the common good. The authors have published widely on the topic of education ...
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Amaney Jamal
Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a str...
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Ray Brescia
The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Exposes the threats to our personal and political identity in the age of surveillance It has become alarmingly clear that our online actions are less private than we’re led to believe. Our data is routinely sold and shared with companies who want to sell us something, political actors who want t...
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Marcel Boyer
Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition: A Manifesto
Our social democracies and welfare states face economic and governance challenges that threaten their very survival. Against this backdrop, Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition argues that a true social democracy requires a clear definition and a refocusing of the roles of the public and pr...
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Quinn Slobodian
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023 In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy. Look at a map of the world and youâ...
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Anthony Bak Buccitelli
The Folklore of Democracy: Tradition and Democratic Culture after January 6th
Contributions by Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Richard Bauman, Norma CantĂş, Miguel DĂ­az-Barriga, Margaret Dorsey, Ehsan Estiri, Gary Alan Fine, Lisa Gilman, Jay Mechling, Whitney Phillips, Afsane Rezaei, Liora Sarfati, and Beverly Stoeltje The Folklore of Democracy: Tradition and Democratic Culture af...
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Fatema Mernissi
Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which progressive Muslims--defenders of democracy, feminists, and others trying to resist fundame...
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Robert D. Putnam
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful insti...
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Dick Howard
The Specter of Democracy
In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism and makes possible a wholesale reevaluation of democratic politics in the U.S. and abroad. The author turns to the American and...
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Wayne Le Cheminant
Manipulating Democracy
Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate, elect...
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Victoria Nourse
Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy
American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers’ most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria Nourse, undercuts the core of legal practice. It...
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John Schwarzmantel
Deformations of Democracy: David Beetham in Contemporary Politics
Academics and activists debate current problems of democratic politics and seek ways to renew the ideals of democracy in a climate of disillusionment and cynicism. Taking their inspiration from the work of David Beetham, an eminent scholar of democracy in theory and practice, they analyse features o...
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Cass R. Sunstein
Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do
"In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democracies face intense political conflict. But is this conflict necessarily something to fear? In this provocative book, one of our leading political and legal...
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