Democracy

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Robert Alan Dahl
A Preface to Economic Democracy (Volume 28) (Quantum Books)
Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterprise...
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Rob Reich
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think ...
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Yiannis Laouris
DIRECT DEMOCRACY: Pericles Democracy in the Digital Era
From the Pnyx of ancient Athens to the social networks of the digital age, democracy remains an unfinished project. Dr. Yannis Laouris invites us to remember again what demos and state really meant, and to imagine how they can coexist again. Combining scientific thought with human experience, the au...
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Cormac Russell
Rekindling Democracy: A Professional's Guide to Working in Citizen Space
Finally, a book that offers a practical yet well-researched guide for practitioners seeking to hone the way they show up in citizen space. At a time when public trust in institutions is at its lowest, expectations of those institutions to make people well, knowledgeable, and secure are rapidly incr...
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Burrows Maxwell
The Shutdown: America’s Longest Government Freeze and Its Lessons for Democracy: Inside the Politics, Economics, and Human Cost of the 2025 Historic
For thirty-six days, the heart of the world’s most powerful democracy stopped beating. Washington stood still, paychecks vanished, airports grew tense, and millions of ordinary Americans were left wondering: how did it come to this? The Shutdown: America’s Longest Government Freeze and Its Less...
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John R. MacArthur
The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, & the Subversion of American Democracy
The Selling of "Free Trade" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition. John R. MacArthur chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the poorly understood, highly controversial law cr...
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Gene Sharp
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
A classic of political resistance by “the man who changed the world” ( The Boston Globe )—repackaged for a new generation rising against authoritarianism around the world For decades, Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy has been a lifeline for movements seeking to challenge opp...
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Leonardo Burlamaqui
Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: A Twenty-First Century Agenda (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)
2017 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy , a work acknowledged as one of the most insightful books written in the twentieth century. It retains a contemporary quality, and still invites criticisms, new interpretations, and extensions and across...
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Rick Talbert
The New Ideal: From Fragile Promise to Enduring Democracy
In The Fragile Ideal , Rick Talbert traced the American experiment from its lofty promises to its hard realities, exploring how inequality, polarization, and disillusionment have tested our national character. That book left readers with an urgent question: if our democracy is fragile, can it endur...
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Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy
An even-handed exploration of the polarized state of campus politics that suggests ways for schools and universities to encourage discourse across difference. College campuses have become flashpoints of the current culture war and, consequently, much ink has been spilled over the relationship b...
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Gregor Fitzi
Populism and the Crisis of Democracy (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break that led to UK’s ‘Brexit’ and the election...
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Gregor Fitzi
Populism and the Crisis of Democracy
The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy. Right-wing populism skyrocketed to electoral success and is now part of the government in several Eu...
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Sarah Kreps
Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy
Why have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lasted longer than any others in American history? The conventional wisdom suggests that the move to an all-volunteer force and unmanned technologies such as drones have reduced the apparent burden of war so much that they have allowed these conflicts to con...
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Katerina Dalacoura
Islamist Terrorism and Democracy in the Middle East
What were the reasons behind the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the many others perpetrated by radical Islamist groups? Does the cause of Islamist terrorism relate to the lack of democracy in the Middle East? The assumption that there is a causal link between the two phenomena was widely ac...
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Matthew Kroenig
The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China
The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strategy declared that the return of great power competition with Russia and China is the greatest threat to U.S. national security. Further, many analysts pre...
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Taylor Dotson
The Divide: How Fanatical Certitude Is Destroying Democracy
Why our obsession with truth--the idea that some undeniable truth will make politics unnecessary--is driving our political polarization. In The Divide , Taylor Dotson argues provocatively that what drives political polarization is not our disregard for facts in a post-truth era, but rather our ob...
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Michael Fine
Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy―All at the Same Time
The U.S. does not have a health system. Instead we have market for health-related goods and services, a market in which the few profit from the public’s ill-health. Health Care Revolt looks around the world for examples of health care systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a sys...
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John Gastil
Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics
Concerned citizens across the globe fear that democratic institutions are failing them. Citizens feel shut out of politics and worry that politicians are no longer responsive to their interests. In Hope for Democracy , John Gastil and Katherine R. Knobloch introduce new tools for tamping down hyper...
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Noah Eber-Schmid
Founding Fanatics: Extremism and the Formation of American Democracy
Since the American Revolution, scholars and citizens have often assumed that dispassionate rationality, reciprocity, and nonviolent tolerance are necessary conditions for the sustained development of democracy. Accordingly, they reject oppositional parties that spurn consensus and terms of mutual re...
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David Copp
The Idea of Democracy (Volume 0)
In the wake of the recent expansion of democratic forms of government around the world, political theorists have begun to rethink the nature and justification of this form of government. The essays in this book address a variety of foundational questions about democracy: How effective is it? How sta...
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