Democracy

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Adam Przeworski
Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990 (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number
Is economic development conducive to political democracy? Does democracy foster or hinder material welfare? These two questions are examined by looking at the experiences of 135 countries between 1950 and 1990. Descriptive information, statistical analyses, and historical narratives are interwoven t...
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Jennifer A. Heerwig
Democracy Vouchers and the Promise of Fairer Elections in Seattle (PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities)
In 2017, Seattle inaugurated a new way for citizens to be involved in democracy: they introduced publicly financed vouchers for voters to donate to local candidates. The innovative plan is designed to level the playing field in campaign financing. Through the vouchers, residents allocate dollars to ...
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John Dewey
Democracy And Education
John Dewey’s Democracy and Education addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work Dewey calls for the complete renewal of public education, arguing for the fusion of vocational and contemplative studies in education and for the neces...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America: The 1835-1840 Classic Study of American Democracy (Annotated)
Unique Elements • Historical Context • Detailed Nineteenth-Century Historical Timeline A Sociological Political Science Literary Classic by Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America by French author Alexis de Tocqueville is a book of political nonfiction first published in two volumes in 183...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (Signet Classics)
French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville's classic treatise on the American way of life. Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. Here, Tocqueville discusses the advantages and dang...
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He Li
Democracy Through the Lens of Chinese Scholars: The Battle of Ideas
The first English-language study of Chinese scholars' perspectives on China's quest for democracy. History teaches us that profound transformations are not shaped by ideas alone but are impossible without great ideas. China is known to have a long history during which scholars played a central role ...
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Mark E. Warren
Democracy and Association
Tocqueville's view that a virtuous and viable democracy depends on robust associational life has become a cornerstone of contemporary democratic theory. Democratic theorists generally agree that issue networks, recreational associations, support circles, religious groups, unions, advocacy groups, an...
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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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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
The first English-language edition published in 1838 and translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. with Preface and notes by John C. Spencer. This landmark work initiated a dialogue about the nature of democracy and the United States and its people that continues to this day. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville [1...
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James S. Fishkin
Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform
This book proposes a new kind of democracy for the modern era, one that not only gives citizens more power but also allows them more opportunities to exercise this power thoughtfully. James S. Fishkin here suggests an innovative solution to the problem of inadequate deliberation, in particular withi...
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John Dewey
Democracy and Education
The American philosopher John Dewey transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. In Democracy and Education (1916), Dewey opposed the model of education in which adults lecture at students and students follow strict rules. Instead, Dewey called upon schools to provide ch...
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Andreas Kalyvas
Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt
Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular foundings has not captured the imagination of contemporary political thought. Most of the time, democratic theory and political science treat as the object of their inquiry normal politics, instit...
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Eugene D. Mazo
Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America
Thanks to a series of recent US Supreme Court decisions, corporations can now spend unlimited sums to influence elections, Super PACs and dark money groups are flourishing, and wealthy individuals and special interests increasingly dominate American politics. Despite the overwhelming support of Amer...
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Robert Gooding-Williams
Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois’s attempts to answer these questions during the decade surrounding the First World W...
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Ken Dill
Democracy Killed Jesus: A Survey of Democracy's Negative Impact Upon the Christian Faith
Many Christians today feel that America is turning its back on God. Recent social issues have continually moved in the direction opposite of traditional Christian values. Most blame these developments on their leaders, hoping that if only the right person is elected this movement away from God will ...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 mont...
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Peter F. Lau
Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865 (Civil Rights and Struggle)
Considered by many historians to be the birthplace of the Confederacy, South Carolina experienced one of the longest and most turbulent Reconstruction periods of all the southern states. After the Civil War, white supremacist leadership in the state fiercely resisted the efforts of freed slaves to s...
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Jay Cost
Democracy or Republic?: How the Founders Crafted the Constitution as the Blueprint for Self-Government
How do you place the people in charge without creating a democratic tyranny? By the time of the American Revolution, nobody in the history of the world had yet answered this question. In recent years, the Constitution has become a source of political controversy between conservatives and progressi...
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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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Robert Penn Warren
Democracy and Poetry (Harvard Paperbacks)
In these two essays, one of America’s most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood vital to each. “I really don’t want to make a noise like a pundit,” Mr. Warren declares, “What I do want to do is to return us―and myself m...
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