Democracy

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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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Richard L. Hasen
Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
“A hard-hitting critique of the American election process as timely as it is frightening. . . . Required reading for legislators and voters.”— Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review From noted election law expert Rick Hasen comes a stark warning on the threats to American democracy in a time of fo...
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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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Francis Fukuyama
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal , David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review , ...
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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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Jon Meacham
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this mo...
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Jane J. Mansbridge
Beyond Adversary Democracy
" Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."—Carol Pateman, Politics "Sociologists recurrently complain about how seldom it is that we produce books that combine serious theorizing about important issues of public policy with original ...
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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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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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Jose Antonio Cheibub
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
This book addresses the following question: why are presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones? Conventional wisdom among political scientists pointS to the incentives generated by the form of government itself; the independence of the executive and legislature that d...
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Russell Crandall
Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama
In this balanced and thoughtprovoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy; the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Drawing upon previously classified intelligence sources and interviews with policymakers...
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Thom Hartmann
The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
America’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy. In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce...
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Michael J. Thompson Associate Professor of Po
Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society
Defending the role that science must play in democratic society--science defined not just in terms of technology but as a way of approaching problems and viewing the world.In this collection of original essays, experts in political science, the hard sciences, philosophy, history, and other disciplin...
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Glenn Greenwald
Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
In 2019, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald writes in this gripping new book, "a series of events commenced that once again placed me at the heart of a sustained and explosive journalistic controversy." New reporting by Greenwald and his team of Brazilian journalists brought to light stunning...
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Raphael Costa
From Dictatorship to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Portugal
This book examines Portugal’s transition from dictatorship to democracy by focusing on Lourinhã’s urbanization and economic development since 1966. Since 1966, Lourinhã’s urban landscape has transformed as Portugal democratized. From a rural town with little infrastructure and few institutio...
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Carlos Santiago Nino
The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy
In this important and wide-ranging book, a leading political theorist and activist considers the question: What justifies democracy? Carlos Santiago Nino critically examines answers others have given and then develops his own distinctive theory of democracy, emphasizing its deliberative character. I...
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Roger Southall
Whites and Democracy in South Africa
Key book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens". How have whites adjusted to, contributed to and ...
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Elizabeth Rusch
You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People―An Empowering Guide to American Politics for Teens
A 2021 YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them. The political landscape has never...
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A. Publius
Killing Democracy: The Bigliest Takeover of Democracy Like You Wouldn't Believe!
Are you concerned about the direction American government is heading? If so, you absolutely must read KILLING DEMOCRACY. If you like the current leadership of the nation circa 2018, this book will challenge your view. KILLING DEMOCRACY is a chilling, behind-the-scenes look that describes a modern Ma...
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