Democracy

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A. C. Grayling
The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy
As democracy shows signs of decay, how do we not only arrest its decline but build something better – a state which is democratic in the fullest sense? The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayl...
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Gyan Prakash
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harr...
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Emily Beaulieu
Electoral Protest and Democracy in the Developing World
This book shows that the third wave of democracy has been accompanied by a worldwide wave of opposition-initiated, election-related protests. Such electoral protests result from a failure on the part of incumbent and opposition elites in the developing world to negotiate acceptable terms of electora...
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Nelson Lichtenstein
Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Industrial Democracy in America begins its close examination of what came to be known among collars of any color as "the labor problem" with the railroad strikes of the 1870s. The contributors cover the theory and practice of the American labor movement, the promise and demise of industrial jurispru...
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Aharon Barak
The Judge in a Democracy
Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes...
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Charles Taylor
Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up
“An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times.” ―Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is i...
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Guoguang Wu
Globalization against Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph
Globalization has reconfigured both the external institutional framework and the intrinsic operating mechanisms of capitalism. The global triumph of capitalism implies the embracing of the market by the state in all its variants, and that global capitalism is not confined to the shell of nation-stat...
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Mark Gilbert
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
A brilliant, meticulously researched account of the birth of Italian democracy after Mussolini. The rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputation in...
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Theo Horesh
The Fascism this Time: and the Global Future of Democracy
"Horesh's perceptive and thoughtful views on fascism are in the great tradition of past works by Orwell, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt and Henry Thoreau." Andy Heintz, author of Dissidents of the International Left A new wave of fascism is inundating the world under the guise of rightwing populism,...
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Claire Provost
Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup – namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power. Exposing the origins of th...
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Steven E. Hendrix
The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States (PSI Reports)
An insider's look at the changes going on in Nicaragua―the internal political maneuvering of Daniel Ortega, the responses by the United States, and the success of recent American pro-democracy civil society efforts there. At the time of Ortega's return to the presidency, attorney and award-winni...
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David Art
The Resilience of the Old Regime: Paths Around Democracy in Europe, 1832–1919
In The Resilience of the Old Regime, David Art reevaluates the so-called first wave of democratization in Western Europe through the lens of authoritarian resilience. He argues that non-democrats succeeded to a very large degree in managing, diverting, disrupting, and repressing democratic movements...
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T. Kaltsounis
The Democratization of Albania: Democracy from Within
The Democratization of Albania describes a multi-year project designed to promote democracy in Albania through the country's entire educational system. Instructional materials were developed, including a basic manual, to introduce open and interactive teaching by a network of almost 3000 teachers an...
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Ben Kanceled
Not A Democracy: How Liberals Are Using Democracy To Destroy The Republic
Our Constitutional Republic was founded on the principle of representative self-government. Unlike the pure democracy of history, which degenerated into disorder, despotism, and eventually tyranny. Our constitutional system is designed to protect and preserve the people's liberties recognized by the...
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Wendy Z. Goldman
Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression
Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the “Great Terror,” a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. In the unions and the factories, repression was accompanied by a mass campa...
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Guinier
The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievem...
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Jim Vincent
The Democracy Clock Event Log: A Contemporaneous Public Record of Governance Actions, Volume I, January 2025-July 2025
The Democracy Clock: Event Log, Volume I is the archival companion to The Democracy Clock, preserving a contemporaneous public record of governance actions affecting democratic institutions in the United States between January and July 2025. Organized chronologically, this volume documents executiv...
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Bob Bauer
The Unraveling: Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis
Now with a new foreword by Harvard Law Professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, and with a new concluding chapter from the author on the unprecedented ethical challenges in the first year of Trump 2.0. Essential reading for anyone interested in modern American politics, get...
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Scott M. Roulier
Shaping American Democracy: Landscapes and Urban Design
This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners―including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists―not only articulated uni...
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Carl Schmitt
Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy. Described both as "the Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of politic...
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