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Suzanne Mettler
Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy
How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between “us” and “them”? In Rural Versus Urban , Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown argue that political polarization is not just about red states a...
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Barry Cannon
Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution: Populism and democracy in a globalised age
The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America’s most enduring political traditions – populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has...
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Saul Sosnowski
Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture
Repression, Exile, and Democracy , translated from the Spanish, is the first work to examine the impact of dictatorship on Uruguyan culture. Some of Uruguay's best-known poets, writers of fiction, playwrights, literary critics and social scientists participate in this multidisciplinary study, analyz...
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Matthew D. Taylor
The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy
"Required reading for anyone seeking to understand Christian nationalism." ―Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne A propulsive account of the network of charismatic Christians that consolidated support for Donald Trump and is reshaping religion and politics in the US. Over the last...
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Rejecting Kings Since 1776 Pro Democracy Unisex Comfort Color T-Shirt Protest Shirt
DESIGN: Unisex protest t-shirt featuring bold "Rejecting Kings Since 1776" message, perfect for expressing pro-democracy values PATRIOTIC MESSAGE: Celebrates America's democratic principles and historical rejection of monarchy dating back to 1776 VERSATILE STYLE: Classic t-shirt design suitable for ...
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Tom Ginsburg
How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In the United States, the tenure of Donald Trump has seemed decisive turning point for many. What kind of president intimidates jurors, calls the news media ...
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Steven I. Wilkinson
Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence
At Indian independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited―conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups―posed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitmen...
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Larry Diamond
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria: The Failure of the First Republic
The overthrow in January 1966 of Nigeria’s First Republic erased what had been regarded as perhaps the most promising prospect for liberal democracy in post-colonial Africa. Marking the sweeping failure of parliamentary institutions across a continent of new nations, it accelerated the slide into ...
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Jagannatham Begari
Interrogating Democracy and Human Rights: The Telangana People's Movement
This book traces the relevance of people's movements in India and their roles in making democracy stronger. It discerns the interrelation and interdependence between democracy and human rights, and assesses how grassroots movements could strive for the deepening and substantialization of democracy. ...
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Smith II
Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago
“The African American community.” “The black position.” In accounts of black politics after the Second World War, these phrases reflect how the African American perspective generally appeared consistent, coherent, and unified. In Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis , Preston H. Smith ...
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Ultaro Protect Democracy Garden Flag 12x18 Double Sided Blue 2024 Yard Flag
Durable Polyester Fabric: The Protect Democracy garden flag is made of machine washable Spun Polyester that is weather resistant and long lasting. Double Sided: Design is double sided with the image printed and visible from both sides and text also reads correctly from both sides. 12"x18" Decorative...
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Ultaro Protect Democracy Garden Flag Double Sided Blue 12x18 UV Resistant Polyester Flag for Outdoor Use, 1 Set
Durable Polyester Fabric: The Protect Democracy garden flag is made of machine washable Spun Polyester that is weather resistant and long lasting. Double Sided: Design is double sided with the image printed and visible from both sides and text also reads correctly from both sides. 12"x18" Decorative...
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Sohl Lee
The Minjung Art Movement: Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea
Emerging as multifaceted cultural activism, the minjung (people’s) art movement defined the aesthetics of the pro-democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s in South Korea. Tracing minjung art’s history and legacy, Sohl Lee explores how artists associated with the movement mobilized images, pr...
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Joshua Wong
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 23-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - and Nobel Peace Prize nominee - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei With global democracy under threat, we must act together to defend out rights: now. When he was 14, Joshua Wong ma...
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Ryan P. Burge
The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us (Why the Culture Wars Led to Polarization
The moderate American church is disappearing--and it's taking democracy with it. Many people assume evangelicals are Republican, Democrats aren't religious, and moderate Christians no longer exist. But that wasn't always true. In the 1980s, evangelicals were just as likely sit beside a Democrat as...
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Margaret Sullivan
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
"An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a chance." ―Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2...
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Kenneth J. Dautrich
The Enduring Democracy
How can our history provide us with a roadmap to the future? The Enduring Democracy provides the essentials of American government, with a focus on placing current issues and debates into a historical perspective. By looking back, students can better understand the challenges and controversie...
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Abdeslam M. Maghraoui
Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936 (Politics, History, and Culture)
The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to liberate its people has produced new forms of domination that have hindered rather than encouraged the em...
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Lawrence R. Jacobs
Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn
In the twentieth century, the United States ended some of its most flagrant inequalities. The "rights revolution" ended statutory prohibitions against women's suffrage and opened the doors of voting booths to African Americans. Yet a more insidious form of inequality has emerged since the 1970s―ec...
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Jonathan C. Pinckney
From Dissent to Democracy: The Promise and Perils of Civil Resistance Transitions
Peaceful protest is a strong driver for democratization across the globe. Yet, it doesn't always lead to democratic transition, as seen in the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt or Yemen. Why do some nonviolent transitions end in democracy while others do not? In From Dissent to Democracy , Jonathan ...
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