Democracy

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Aram Hur
Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
In Narratives of Civic Duty , Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why do some citizens feel a responsibility to vote, pay taxes, or take up arms in defense of one's country? Through comparing democratic societies in East Asia and elsewhere, Hur shows that...
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Dominic Erdozain
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent...
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M. B. B. Biskupski
The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy (Polish and Polish American Studies)
The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic s...
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Jeffrey Klaiber
The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America
No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democrac...
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Theodore Johnson
If We Are Brave: A Thought-Provoking Examination of Race, Democracy, and the American Identity in a Pivotal Election Year
The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life. “The United States claims to be a nation founded on an idea,...
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Katherine Stewart
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS "An eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political moment."– The New York Times Book Review “American democracy isn't simply dying. It is, as Stewart observes, being murdered. ”–The...
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Azimi
The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule
The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 launched Iran as a pioneer in a broad-based movement to establish democratic rule in the non-Western world. In a book that provides essential context for understanding modern Iran, Fakhreddin Azimi traces a century of struggle for the establishment of representa...
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Peter Mathews
Dollar Democracy on Steroids: with Liberty and Justice for Some; How to Reclaim the Middle-Class Dream for All
Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to benefit their donors more than the people. They have outsourced our jobs; dismantled our public education and colleges; neglected our healthcare; destroyed ...
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MIchael Cohen Milloy
The Dismantling of Democracy: Wake Up! Protect Your Bubble by Protecting the System Keeping it Afloat! Democracy.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must undergo the fatigues of supporting it." - Thomas Paine. We are witnessing a systematic teardown of democracy worldwide. This book will help you make sense of the world, understand how this could happen, and consider what we can do as ordinar...
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Martin Rausch
Finding Light Through the Cracks: Reinventing Democracy with Audrey Tang
When democracy becomes something that happens to us rather than something we do, a dangerous gap opens. We vote, then watch from the sidelines. Leaders promise change; little changes. Trust erodes. Some turn to strongmen who promise to clean house. Some disengage entirely. Taiwan made a different be...
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Nancy S. Love
Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics (Suny Series,Praxis:Theory In)
Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future. Doing Democracy examines the potential of the arts and popular culture to extend and deepen the experience of democracy. Its contributors address the use of photography, cartooning, memorial...
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William F Murphy
Social Catholicism for the Twenty-First Century?--Volume 1: Historical Perspectives and Constitutional Democracy in Peril
This first of two volumes introduces the tradition of social Catholicism, not only in its earlier realizations, but regarding how a contemporary renewal might address the crisis in which constitutional democracies and the postwar liberal order are under assault by populist and even neo-fascist movem...
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Francisco Panizza
Populism and the Mirror of Democracy
Populism raises awkward questions about modern forms of democracy. It often represents the ugly face of the people. It is neither the highest form of democracy nor its enemy. It is, rather, a mirror in which democracy may contemplate itself, warts and all, in a discovery of itself and what it lacks....
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Joseph A. McCartin
Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin ex...
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Joseph Fishkin
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
“Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.” ―James Pope, Washington Post “Fishkin and Forbath’s accessible work serves as both history lesson and political ...
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Todd Otis
Sparks of the Revolution: James Otis and the Birth of American Democracy -- A Novel
At a time when Democracy is under attack, the riveting new novel, Sparks of the Revolution , is a vibrant reminder of where our Democracy was born and the people and principles that brought it to life. A small group of patriots, first sparked by a lawsuit James Otis brought and then argued, led Bos...
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William Magnuson
Blockchain Democracy
In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson provides a breathtaking tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections to the dark ...
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William Tell
A Treatise on Direct Democracy
William Tell's 'A Treatise on Direct Democracy' is a groundbreaking work that challenges the status quo of representative democracy. In this 56-page pocket book, first published in 2024, Tell explores four philosophical axioms that contrast direct democracy with its representative counterpart. Inclu...
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Susan Maslan
Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
In Revolutionary Acts Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionary France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which Parisian audiences, actors and playwrights, and political authorities fought to shape the newly emerging democracy. Examining the producti...
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Francine Winddance Twine
Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil
In Racism in a Racial Democracy , France Winddance Twine asks why Brazilians, particularly Afro-Brazilians, continue to have faith in Brazil's "racial democracy" in the face of pervasive racism in all spheres of Brazilian life. Through a detailed ethnography, Twine provides a cultural analysis of t...
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