Democracy

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Gabriel Marcella
Democracy and Security in Latin America
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to generate the necessary capacity to address important security and institutional challenges; this volume deepens our understanding of the nature and extent of state governance in Latin America. State capacity is multidimensional, with ...
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Bruce S. Thornton
Democracy's Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama (Hoover Institution Press Publication (Hardcover))
By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens eq...
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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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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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Terry Newell
Democracy's Champions: Civic Virtue in America
Americans hunger for public heroes, people we can proudly call champions of democracy. Faced as we are with too much political polarization, distrust and a lack of civility in society, we wonder about the future of our democracy. Yet throughout our history remarkable citizens have demonstrated the c...
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David S. Cecelski
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, a...
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Daniel Bessner
Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (The United States in the World)
In Democracy in Exile , Daniel Bessner explores the life of Hans Speier, one of the most significant figures in the history of U.S. defense policy. Bessner traces Speier's intellectual development from Weimar Germany to the Cold War United States, revealing how his European roots shaped the expert...
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Greenchant
Democracy Not Dictatorship Flag Save Democracy Garden Flags 12x18 Inch Double Sided Burlap Yard Signs No Flagpole
Premium Flag Size & Design‌: Our 18"x12" double sided decorative Democracy Not Dictatorship house flag is the perfect flag for outside, designed to showcase your enthusiasm and style. As a versatile garden flag, it brightens up your front door, porch, or any outdoor space with its vivid colors and...
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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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Robert P. Abele
Democracy Gone: A Chronicle of the Last Chapters of the Great American Democratic Experiment
In Democracy Gone, Abele argues that the last eight years in particular have shown us that our democracy has largely disintegrated, leaving behind only an exoskeleton that was once its original vertebrae of ends and principles. This book questions whether or not the American democratic experiment ...
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Atul Kohli
Democracy and Inequality in India: Political Economy of a Troubled Giant
Contemporary India provides a giant and complex panorama that deserves to be understood. Through in-depth analysis of democracy, economic growth and distribution, caste, labour, gender, and foreign policy, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali provide a framework for understanding recent political and economi...
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Maggie White
Democracy on the Edge: Navigating Loyalty, Truth, and Power in Turbulent Times (Society in Debate)
Is your voice being heard in the tumult of modern politics? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of political news and opinions? Have you found yourself questioning the effectiveness of democracy in today’s world? You're not alone. Like many, you may feel lost in the maze of politi...
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Lauren Pearlman
Democracy’s Capital: Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s–1970s (Justice, Power, and Politics)
From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C. — capital of “the land of the free” — lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the ...
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Atul Kohli
Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability
Long considered one of the great successes of the developing world, India has in recent years experienced growing challenges to political order and stability. Dominant social groups face growing demands of newly organized social groups, often leading to intense violence, and the once hegemonic Congr...
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Richard E. Sclove
Democracy and Technology (The Conduct of Science Series)
This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to widespread political disengagement. Engineers, man...
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Alain de Benoist
Democracy and Populism: The Telos Essays
The crisis of democracy, the consequences of neoliberalism and globalization, the limits of sovereignty, and of course the rise of populism: few thinkers have given more sustained attention to these matters than the French author Alain de Benoist. Democracy and Populism collects de Benoist's essay...
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Michael K. MacKenzie
Democracy and the Future: Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems
This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists and policy experts to examine how democratic systems might be designed so that the long-term consequences of our decisions are considered in policymaking processes. It examines these topics from ma...
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Mark Peceny
Democracy at the Point of Bayonets
No country has worked harder to coerce others to adopt liberal institutions than the United States. This book examines the promotion of democracy during U.S. military interventions in the twentieth century, showing it to be one of the central ways in which the United States attempts to reconcile the...
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Ely
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (Harvard Paperbacks)
This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the co...
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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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