Democracy

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Trevor Ngwane
Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements (Wildcat)
Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book argues that they can. In a study conducted in dozens of South Africa's shack settlements, where more ...
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C. H. Hoebeke
The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment
Before the Seventeenth Amendment, US senators were elected by state legislatures. To end the supposed corruption of state "machines" and make the Senate more responsive to the legislative needs of the industrial era, the Senate was made a popularly elected body in 1913. Meanwhile, the spread of info...
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Kyle G. Volk
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, historian Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explo...
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Yanilda María González
Authoritarian Police in Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasanc...
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Antonio Herrera
Rethinking the History of Democracy in Spain (Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain)
Focusing on the processes of political socialisation and democratisation that took place in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book brings together specialists who propose the need to rethink the contemporary history of democracy in Spain to build a new narrative. To do so, th...
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Richard L. Abel
How Autocrats Seek Power (Defending American Democracy)
Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump’s populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election. This book is about the threat of auto...
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Robert Asen
School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy: How Market-Based Education Reform Fails Our Communities (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)
Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K–12 education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting in poorer learning conditions, underpaid teachers, and greater inequality. But, as Robert Asen reveals here, the damage that market-based education reform inflicts on society ru...
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Mary Frances Berry
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with ...
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Christian Fuchs
Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere (Media, Communication and Society, 6)
This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs' Media, Communication and Society series draws on radical Humanist theory to address questions around the digital public sphere and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today. The book discusses topics such as digital democracy, the digital p...
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Ali Velshi
Small Acts of Courage: A Family's Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact. Small acts of courage matter. Sometimes, they change the world. Our history books are filled with the stories of those who fought for democracy and freedom―for idealism itself―against all odd...
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Greenchant
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Jonathan Rauch
Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy (Politics and Culture)
Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy   “Concise and elegant. . . . Rauch applies careful research and incisive prose to examine, diagnose, and prescribe a cure for the maladies afflicting contemporary religious-political dynamics.”—Michael M. Rosen, Commentary ...
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Kian Tajbakhsh
Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization
Empirically rich and theoretically informed, this book is an innovative analysis of political decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Drawing upon Kian Tajbakhsh's twenty years of experience working with and researching local government in Iran, it uses original data and insights to exp...
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Joseph Postell
Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government (Studies in Constitutional Democracy)
The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by ...
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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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David Neuman
Patriots' Wake: When Democracy's Guardians Become Its Greatest Threat
PATRIOTS' WAKE: When Democracy's Guardians Become Its Greatest Threat In this explosive political thriller, retired CIA analyst Michael Collier thought his decades of witnessing democracy's collapse in foreign nations had prepared him for anything. He was wrong. When his daughter Emily, a dedicat...
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Michael Mosher
A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment (The Cultural Histories Series)
This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for generations of readers. Yet democracy did not...
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Prof Rosalind Dixon
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal globalization and the subversion of liberal democracy (Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism)
Law is a fast globalizing field and many lawyers, judges, and political leaders are engaged in a process of comparative 'borrowing'. But this new form of legal globalization has dark sides. It is not just a source of inspiration for those seeking to strengthen and improve democratic institutions and...
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Louis Schubert
The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics
The question at the center of the sixteenth edition of THE IRONY OF DEMOCRACY is "How democratic is American society?" While most American government texts address politics from a pluralist perspective, this text approaches the subject by addressing the theme of elitism and contrasting it with democ...
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Anders Åslund
Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are usually messy and emotional affairs, challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and Russia's experience is no exception. This book focuses on the tra...
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