Democracy

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Michael Bérubé
It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom
How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning? The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more g...
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Salik Shah
Planet Democracy: Stories of Hope, Courage, Unity & Compassion: Mithila Review Issue 16
Featuring 12 powerful and award-winning voices from Planet Democracy Stories of Hope, Courage, Unity & Compassion A special edition of Mithila Review devoted to Hopepunk — a literature of resistance, which seeks to inspire compassionate thought and positive action. “Hope” and “punk” ...
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Stephen Macedo
Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement (Practical and Professional Ethics)
The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reaction to the dominance of liberal constitutionalism. But many questions surround this new project. Wha...
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A. J. Baime
The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The story of the dramatic transformation of Detroit from "motortown" to the "arsenal of democracy," featuring Edsel Ford, who rebelled against his pacifist father, Henry Ford, to build a manufacturing complex that was crucial to winning WWII. As the United States entere...
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Alan Rosenthal
Engines of Democracy: Politics and Policymaking in State Legislatures
State legislators have often been in the shadow of their national counterparts, but they drive the processes of democracy.   Rosenthal brings together a lifetime of research and experience on state legislative politics into one eminently readable volume―a dynamic, inside view of the people involv...
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Tom Hayden
Inspiring Participatory Democracy: Student Movements from Port Huron to Today
The famous 1962 Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) introduced the concept of participatory democracy to popular discourse and practice. In Inspiring Participatory Democracy Tom Hayden, one of the principal architects of the statement, analyses its historical impact a...
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Ian MacMullen
Civics Beyond Critics: Character Education in a Liberal Democracy (Oxford Political Theory)
Should character formation be a goal of civic education in a liberal democracy? In addition to teaching knowledge and skills, should civic education shape children's values, beliefs, preferences, habits, identities, and sentiments? Most contemporary political and educational theorists who address th...
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Jay K. Dow
The First Elections: The Rise of Electoral Democracy in the Early American Republic
In this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Congressional elections in pre–Jacksonian America, Jay K. Dow examines the origins of our modern electoral politics. When did the United States become a recognizably modern republic? The traditional understanding is that elections in the Age of Jack...
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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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Grant N. Havers
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy: A Conservative Critique
Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective . Most mainstream readers of Strauss have either condemned him from the Left as an extreme right-wing opponent of liberal democracy or celebrated him from the Right as a tra...
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Hyo-Dong Lee
Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude: A Comparative Theology for the Democracy of Creation (Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions, 3)
We live in an increasingly global, interconnected, and interdependent world, in which various forms of systemic imbalance in power have given birth to a growing demand for genuine pluralism and democracy. As befits a world so interconnected, this book presents a comparative theological and philosoph...
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Julia Preston
Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy
The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through...
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Ian Budge
Politics: A Unified Introduction to How Democracy Works
The second edition of this comprehensive introduction to politics remains an essential framework for assessing the health and workings of present-day democracy. The book explores how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular, basically centrist, preferences. In helping explain ...
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Kenneth Janda
The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics, The Essentials (Book Only)
THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN GLOBAL POLITICS, THE ESSENTIALS introduces new co-author Debra Schildkraut to this stellar author team. This best-selling American government text is highly acclaimed for the non-ideological framework it uses to explore three themes: freedom, order,...
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Máximo Langer
Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study (ASCL Studies in Comparative Law)
Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine ...
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Xabier E. Barandiaran
Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital
This Open Access book explains the philosophy, design principles, and community organization of Decidim and provides essential insights into how the platform works. Decidim is the world leading digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, built entirely and collaboratively as free software, a...
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Erica Smiley
The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
In The Future We Need , Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people―not only changing their wages and working condition...
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Steven L. Taylor
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective
American democracy differs greatly from other democracies around the world. But is the American way more or less efficacious than comparable democracies in Asia, Latin America, or Europe? What if the United States had a prime minister instead of (or in addition to) a president, or if it had three or...
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Dr. William Stuart Nelson
The Black Race in American Democracy
First published in French, now restored in English: a searing portrait of race, democracy, and the fight for freedom in the United States. The Black Race in the American Democracy by Dr. William Stuart Nelson is both a historical document and a timeless call to action. Originally written in French...
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Robert A. Dahl
PLURALIST DEMOCRACY (Yale Studies in Political Science)
Continuing his career-long exploration of modern democracy Dahl addresses a question that has long vexed students of political theory: the place of independent organizations associations or special interest groups within the democratic state.-- The Wilson Quarterly "There is probably no greater exp...
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