Democracy

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Stephen W. Sawyer
Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880
An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century. Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century...
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Ronald B Shaheed
On Islam and American Democracy
Most American Muslims, today, are descendants of the Africans (many of them Muslims) who came to America in the hulls of slave ships more than 400 year ago and experienced nearly four centuries of perhaps the most heinous system of chattel slavery in the history of mankind; all under the mantle of â...
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Nicholas Buccola
Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (American Political Thought)
Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the majority? When and why should we revere t...
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Doug Stephens
The Future of Competitive Advantage: A Business Plan to Save Your Customers, Your Company, and Democracy
An original discussion of how to find exciting competitive opportunities by reexamining how you do business For decades, business leaders have chased advantage through efficiency, innovation, and scale. But a deeper truth has emerged: no company can thrive in a society that is failing. After World W...
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David C. Berliner
Public Education for Our Nation's Democracy: Commentaries on Schooling in America (Technology, Education―Connections (The TEC Series))
David Berliner, one of America's foremost educational researchers, issues an urgent message for all those who care about preserving the future of public education, and the future of democracy. Throughout his extraordinary career, educational psychologist David Berliner visited hundreds of classroo...
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Anna M. Meyerrose
Eroding Democracy from the Outside In: International Organizations and Democratic Backsliding
The end of the Cold War gave way to a fundamental shift in the structure of the international system. It was an era characterized above all by liberal triumphalism in which Western politicians and policymakers turned to international organizations (IOs) to spread and reinforce liberal values. These ...
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L. L. Welborn
Paul, Democracy, and the Corinthians
In this short and remarkable book L.L. Welborn outlines the complex and contested nature of 'democracy' in the Greek cities of the Roman East, where the apostle Paul established Christ groups, showing that writings of Paul and the development of Christianity reveal a strong and radical form of democ...
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Daniel M. Smith
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan (Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center)
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators. Ja...
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Terence O. Ranger
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa (Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South)
In recent decades, Christianity has acquired millions of new adherents in Africa, the region with the world's fastest-expanding population. What role has this development of evangelical Christianity played in Africa's democratic history? To what extent do its churches affect its politics? By taking ...
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Adriana Cavarero
Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought
What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contemporary debates about the relationship between democracy, happiness, and dissent. Drawing on Arendt's understanding of politics as a participatory experience,...
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Marcus O'Reilly
We the Workers: The Fight to Save American Democracy
We the Workers: The Fight To Save American Democracy By Marcus O’Reilly America’s democracy is at a crossroads, and at the heart of the battle lies the struggle between workers and corporations. In We the Workers: The Fight to Save American Democracy , Marcus O’Reilly uncovers how the fi...
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Vincent Harding
America Will Be!: Conversations on Hope, Freedom, and Democracy
This illuminating dialogue between Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda and Vincent Harding, a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., recounts the historic events of the American civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the spiritual and philosophical values and ideas that they believe should g...
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Christopher J. Coyne
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in military interventions, from Germany and Japan to Afghanistan and Iraq? Do efforts to export democracy help as much as they hurt? These are some of the most enduring questions of ou...
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Leon Trotsky
Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism)(Polis & Praxis Red Series)(Annotated): a Reply to Karl Kautsky
Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) By Leon Trotsky Polis & Praxis Red Series Edition Written in 1920 at the height of the Russian Civil War, Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) is Leon Trotsky’s explosive defense of revolutionary power and the use of force in...
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Robert P. Jones
Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy , a clear-eyed reckoning with the moral collapse of white Christianity and a call to protect American democracy. What happens when the church trades faith for power, and democracy for dominion? In this searing bo...
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Marilyn Fischer
Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics”
In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing , Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics , is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics , a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is pra...
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Tom Baldwin
Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
We all know something has gone wrong: people hate politics, loathe the media and are now scared of each other too. Journalist and one-time senior political advisor Tom Baldwin tells the riveting--often terrifying--story of how a tidal wave of information overwhelmed democracy's sandcastle defenses a...
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Jason Morgan Ward
Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965
After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight. Journalists profiled the rise of a segregationist movement committed to preserving the “southern way of life” through a campaign of massive resistance. In Defending Wh...
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Stuart N. Soroka
Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy
This book develops and tests a “thermostatic” model of public opinion and policy, in which preferences for policy both drive and adjust to changes in policy. The representation of opinion in policy is central to democratic theory and everyday politics. So too is the extent to which public prefer...
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Raul L. Madrid
The Birth of Democracy in South America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
South America contains some of the oldest democracies in the world, yet we still know relatively little about how and why democracy arose in the region. Raúl L. Madrid argues that three main developments – the professionalization of the military, the growth of parties, and splits within the rulin...
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