Democracy

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Michael S. Katz
Education, Democracy and the Moral Life
This volume has its origin in the Francis T. Villemain Memorial lectures at San Jose State University – a lecture series established in 1992 to honor the memory of 1 Dean Francis T. Villemain. All the essays in this volume, with the exception of those by Gert Biesta, Susan Verducci, and Michael Ka...
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Justin Behrend
Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War
Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation, not only were black men voting but t...
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Nanjala Nyabola
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (African Arguments)
From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa. While the impact of the Digital Age on Western po...
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Kevin Mattson
Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era (Volume 0)
During America's Progressive Era at the beginning of the twentieth century, democracy was more alive than it is today. Social activists and intellectuals of that era formed institutions where citizens educated themselves about pressing issues and public matters. While these efforts at democratic par...
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Douglas A. Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature Before Emancipation
This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones’s Pragmatics of Democracy reads African American literature, from its beginnings through the mi...
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Ravi Agrawal
India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
"This is, quite simply, the best book about India today." - Fareed Zakaria , host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and author of The Post-American World Foreign Policy managing editor and former CNN South Asia bureau chief Ravi Agrawal takes readers on a journey across India, through remote rur...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stephen E. Frantzich
Citizen Democracy: Political Activists in a Cynical Age (People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P)
Apathy and antipathy toward politics are epidemic. Citizen Democracy provides the antidote. Through a series of nineteen carefully chosen vignettes, Stephen Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life-rich and poor, old and young, black and white, male and female, left and right, famous an...
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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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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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Paul J. Quirk
The Legislative Branch (Institutions of American Democracy)
The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder, this collection of essays examines the role of the Legislature in American democracy and the d...
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Jeffrey Abramson
We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy, With a New Preface
In a new preface to this foundational book on the American jury, Jeffrey Abramson responds to his critics, defends his views on the jury as an embodiment of deliberative democracy in action, and reflects on recent jury trials and reforms. Praise for the previous edition: “Power to the persuasi...
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Allen Guelzo
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize *Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize* *Finalist for the 2025 Gilder ...
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Ian Hughes author of Disordered Mind
Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy
Disordered Minds offers a compelling and timely account of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders, and provides a stark warning that the conditions in which this psychopathy flourishes - extremes of social inequality and a culture of hyper-individualism - are the hallmarks of our present age. 'An...
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