Democracy

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Joshua Block
Teaching for a Living Democracy: Project-Based Learning in the English and History Classroom
This classroom narrative explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. Written by an English and history teacher in a Philadelphia public high school, this book presents a framework of tea...
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Alexander Lee
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship
Why are some countries more democratic than others? For most non-European countries, elections began under Western colonial rule. However, existing research largely overlooks these democratic origins. Analyzing a global sample of colonies across four centuries, this book explains the emergence of co...
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Joel Farrell
The Radical Greek Idea: Democracy in Ancient Athens
A new, bold, radical idea emerged in ancient Athens in 508 BCE, the concept that the people could rule themselves. Democracy today is equated with good, just government, but in ancient Greece, it still had a lot to prove. The Athenians embraced democracy in its purest form: direct democracy in which...
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Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Capitalist Development and Democracy
It is a commonplace claim of Western political discourse that capitalist development and democracy go hand in hand. Cross-national statistical research on political democracy supports this claim. By contrast, comparative historical studies carried out within a political economy approach argue that e...
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Samuel E. Quainoo
Transitions and Consolidation of Democracy in Africa (Global Academic Publishing)
Examines the transitions to democracy in Africa. What conditions motivate a transition to democracy? Can the dynamics of a transition influence its outcome? Under what circumstances has democracy been consolidated in Africa? This trilogy of questions has become necessary in light of the current de...
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Nathan Gardels
Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism (Volume 1) (Great Transformations)
The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challe...
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Diego Fossati
The Meaning of Democracy in Southeast Asia (Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia)
This Element contributes to existing research with an analysis of public understandings of democracy based on original surveys fielded in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It conceptualises democracy as consisting of liberal, egalitarian and participatory ideals, and inve...
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August H. Nimtz Jr
Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic'
While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. August J. Nimtz argues that Marx, unlike Tocqueville, not only recognized that the overthrow of slavery and the cessation of r...
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Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People
This book examines Charles Dickens's fiction alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the British government was under enorm...
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J. Peter Euben
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy
In the contemporary United States the image and experience of Athenian democracy has been appropriated to justify a profoundly conservative political and educational agenda. Such is the conviction expressed in this provocative book, which is certain to arouse widespread comment and discussion. What ...
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Gail Webster
A Reminder of What Democracy Is: Clarity, Courage, and Everyday Action for a Stronger Future
Stop feeling powerless. Start understanding. Does the news leave you frustrated, confused, or wondering if your voice even matters anymore? In today’s nonstop political noise, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Arguments dominate social media, misinformation spreads faster than facts, and many peopl...
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P. J. Rhodes
Athenian Democracy (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World)
Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The democracy was inseparably bound up with the ideals of liberty and equality, the rule of law, and the di...
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E. B. White
On Democracy: E. B. White's Essays on Freedom, Fascism, and Hope in an Age of Uncertainty
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Book “For democracy’s weary champions, White’s time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline.”—Madeleine Albright A collection of essays, letters, and poems from E. B. White, “one of the country’s great literary treasures” (New York Times), c...
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Michelle A Balconi
Let's Chat About Democracy: exploring forms of government in a treehouse
It’s Memorial Day weekend when Danny and Maria move to a new town with a giant treehouse. The children spend long summer days with their new friends in the community park but are challenged to find a fair way for everyone to enjoy the treehouse. With a little guidance from Mrs. Quinn, the ever-pre...
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Christopher S. Parker
Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
How military service led black veterans to join the civil rights struggle Fighting for Democracy shows how the experiences of African American soldiers during World War II and the Korean War influenced many of them to challenge white supremacy in the South when they returned home. Focusing on th...
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Gail Webster
A Reminder of What Democracy Is: Clarity, Courage, Everyday Action for a Stronger Future
In A Reminder of What Democracy Is , author Gail Webster offers a clear, hopeful voice in a time of confusion and division. This book calls readers back to the values that make democracy strong- clarity, courage, and everyday action. Through engaging reflections and practical insights, Webster ex...
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Alain de Benoist
The Problem of Democracy
The Problem of Democracy is the first of Alain de Benoist's book-length political works to appear in English. It presents the complexity and depth which underlies all of de Benoist’s work and which is often neglected by those who seek to dismiss him by oversimplifying or distorting his arguments....
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John R. Hibbing
Stealth Democracy: Americans' Beliefs About How Government Should Work (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
Examining how people want their democratic government to work, this study finds that Americans don't like many of the practices associated with democracy: the conflicts, the debates, the compromises. It finds that Americans don't want to have to see democracy in practice, nor do they want to be invo...
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John J. Patrick
Understanding Democracy: A Hip Pocket Guide
This handy pocket guide explains the core concepts of democracy in a clear A-Z format. Though these core concepts may be practiced differently in various countries, every genuine democracy is based on them in one way or another. Ideal for civics and government classrooms, Understanding Democracy i...
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Devesh Kapur
Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India
What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on ...
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