Democracy

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Johann N. Neem
Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (How Things Worked)
The unknown history of American public education. At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It’s a story in whi...
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy – The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)
The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing t...
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Jellle J P Wouters
Democracy in Nagaland: Tribes, Traditions, Tensions
This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the historical, cultural, and traditional inferences, inner-logic, and intricacies of democratic politics and elections in Nagaland. It goes beyond 'institutional analyses' of democratic structures and governance by looking at the troubled histori...
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Nancy MacLean
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation 's "Most Valuable Book" “[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.” — The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainst...
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Sara Lagi
Democracy in Its Essence: Hans Kelsen as A Political Thinker
Hans Kelsen is commonly associated with legal theory and philosophy of law. Democracy in Its Essence: Hans Kelsen as a Political Thinker instead investigates Kelsen’s democratic theory as it developed between the 1920s and 1950s, which challenged the existence of democracies in many different resp...
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Sheri Berman
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first ti...
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Sheri Berman
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first ti...
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Kurt Weyland
Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat: Countering Global Alarmism
The recent global wave of populist governments, which culminated in Donald Trump's victory in 2016, has convinced many observers that populism is a grave threat to democracy. In his new book, Kurt Weyland critiques recent scholarship for focusing too closely on cases where populist leaders have crus...
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Sandeep Vaheesan
Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States
Private money, public good, and the original fight for control of America’s energy industry. Until the 1930s, financial interests dominated electrical power in the United States. That changed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal which restructured the industry. The government expande...
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Sor-hoon Tan
Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World
Explores the significance of Dewey's thought on democracy for the contemporary world. Using a multidisciplinary approach, contributors to this volume explore the significance of John Dewey's Pragmatism for the contemporary world. They examine such issues as whether Classical Pragmatism justifies g...
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Ivan Krastev
Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukraine. In Democra...
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M. Steven Fish
Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Although Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s after shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, it subsequently failed to continue progressing toward democracy. M. Steven Fish offers an explanation for the direction of regime change in post-Soviet Russia, r...
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Philip Green
Democracy (Key Concepts in Critical Theory)
Brings together classical and contemporary arguments about pure democracy versus representative government, the role of elites in a democracy, possibilities for greater popular participation, the relationship between democracy and capitalism, democracy and male domination, and the linkage between ma...
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Bonnie Honig
Democracy and the Foreigner
What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy, our culture, our well-being? This dilemma underlies age-old debates about immigration, citizenship, and national identity that are strikingly relevant today. In Democracy and th...
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Peter Campbell
Democracy and Social Justice: Uncollected Writings of Louis Brandeis
Few Supreme Court justices have had a greater impact on modern life than Louis D. Brandeis. His court opinions have shaped the law and have helped articulate many rights Americans enjoy today. But Brandeis was a prolific author before he ascended to the Court and much of what he wrote then continues...
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Temma Kaplan
Democracy: A World History (New Oxford World History)
In our time, the term "democracy" is frequently evoked to express aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that claim to benefit more than a select minority of the population. In this book, Temma Kaplan examines attempts from ancient Mesopotamia to the early twenty ...
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Yosef Hudson C.A
DEMOCRACY FRAGMENTED
Fragmented Democracy: Unmasking the Farce Synopses: In Democracia Fragmentada (Fragmented Democracy), the author lays bare the mechanisms that weaken Brazilian democracy. The book denounces the farce behind the political system, where parties cling to ideologies, ignoring the real needs of the...
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Benjamin I. Page
Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
UPDATED FOR THE TRUMP AND POST-TRUMP ERAS WITH A NEW CHAPTER: "A CRITICAL JUNCTURE" America faces daunting problems--stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? ...
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Amel Ahmed
Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice: Engineering Electoral Dominance
Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies today...
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Guisela Latorre
Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (Global Latin/o Americas)
Guisela Latorre’s  Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile  documents and critically deconstructs the explosion of street art that emerged in Chile after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, providing the first broad analysis of the visual vocabulary of Chile’s...
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