Democracy

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Maggie White
Democracy on the Edge: Navigating Loyalty, Truth, and Power in Turbulent Times (Society in Debate)
Is your voice being heard in the tumult of modern politics? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of political news and opinions? Have you found yourself questioning the effectiveness of democracy in today’s world? You're not alone. Like many, you may feel lost in the maze of politi...
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Atul Kohli
Democracy and Inequality in India: Political Economy of a Troubled Giant
Contemporary India provides a giant and complex panorama that deserves to be understood. Through in-depth analysis of democracy, economic growth and distribution, caste, labour, gender, and foreign policy, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali provide a framework for understanding recent political and economi...
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Dennis W. Johnson
Democracy for Hire: A History of American Political Consulting
Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California governorship, helped derail Bill...
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JACOBS
Democracy under Fire
Donald Trump's presidency offered Americans a dire warning regarding the vulnerabilities in their democracy, but the threat is broader and deeper-and looms still. "January 6th was a disgrace," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell solemnly intoned at the end of Donald Trump's second impeachment...
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Ilya Somin
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter, Second Edition
One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This creates a nation of peo...
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James
Democracy for a Sustainable World
The path to global sustainable development is participatory democratic global governance – the only truly effective path to confronting pandemics, military conflict, climate change, biodiversity loss, and potential overall ecological collapse. Democracy for a Sustainable World explains why global ...
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Lars Behrisch
Democracy's Double Helix: Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Where does our modern democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but highly elitist; and the notion of individual equality, emerging during the early modern period. These two things first converged in the American...
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Hollie Russon Gilman
Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America (Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st
A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publication Participatory Budgeting—the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the United States. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of pa...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II (Bantam Classics)
By Alexis de Tocqueville. From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America—, first published in 1835, —enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. "No better study of a nation's institutions ...
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Reena N. Goldthree
Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean
A captivating history of the Afro-Caribbean soldiers who fought for the British Empire in World War I and their transnational campaign for equality Following the outbreak of World War I, tens of thousands of men from the British Caribbean volunteered as soldiers to fight on behalf of the British E...
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Ibrahim Elbadawi
Democracy in the Arab World (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)
Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued to prevail. This book examines the major reasons underlying the persistence of this democracy deficit over the past decades and touches on the prospects for deepening the process ...
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Eric W. Robinson
Democracy beyond Athens
What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes has been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy – for which evidence is harder to come by – has received only fleeting attention. Nevertheless, there exists a ...
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Naomi Zack
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed ― the demos ― have a say in government. But different conceptions of democracy have left many out. Naomi Zack provides here ...
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Tom Latkowski
Democracy Vouchers: How bringing money into politics can drive money out of politics
From city halls to the halls of Congress, big money dominates American politics. Despite widespread support for reform, even basic attempts to address the problem have been defeated. As a result, American politics has gotten stuck, with even popular reforms like raising the minimum wage, mitigating ...
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Philip Bunting
Democracy!: A positive primer on people power. Discover what defines a democracy and why your voice matters.
What you say (and how you say it) has the power to change the world. Democracy gives you that power. Democracy is people power. But does democracy  really  matter? How does it work? And what exactly is democracy, anyway?! Get set to speak up and learn how you can create positive change in you...
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Bumba Mukherjee
Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Countries (Chicago Series on International and Domestic Institutions)
Since the 1970s, two major trends have emerged among developing countries: the rise of new democracies and the rush to free trade. For some, the confluence of these events suggests that a free-market economy complements a fledgling democracy. Others argue that the two are inherently incompatible and...
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Brian S. Mueller
Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign Policy
In Democracy's Think Tank , Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in making the world safe for diversity. Unlike defense intellectuals at the RAND Corporation and other think tanks responsible for formulating military strateg...
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Victor Pickard
Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society
As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, continuous revelations about the role that major media outlets--from Facebook to Fox News--play in the spread of misinformation have exposed deep pathologies ...
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George Novack
Democracy and Revolution
The limitations and advances of various forms of democracy in class society, from its roots in ancient Greece through its rise and decline under capitalism. Discusses the emergence of Bonapartism, military dictatorship, and fascism, and how democracy will be advanced under a workers and farmers regi...
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Alex Sayf Cummings
Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes in the 1950s, even the ...
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