Democracy

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Nick Bromell
The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy
"Why," asks Nick Bromell, "should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception even after whi...
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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: The United States Since the New Deal (American Business, Politics, and Society)
A collection of essays exploring the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts today Changes to the meaning and nature of work, capitalism, and democracy during and after the New Deal have been contested from the mid-twentieth century to the present...
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John R. Wallach
The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy
In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be seen as ha...
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Christopher Ryan Maboloc
Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte (Mindanao Studies)
About the Book This book took five years to write. The essays chronicle the six-year administration of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. It traces the historical roots, reasons, conflicts, and justification for his radical or progressive approach to politics. The author, according to Dr. Julio Teehank...
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Thomas Carothers
Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve
Aid to promote democracy abroad has emerged as a major growth industry in recent years. Not only the United States but many other Western countries, international institutions, and private foundations today use aid to support democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, A...
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Nikhil Menon
Planning Democracy
The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally contradictory. After nearly two cen...
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Michael A. Rebell
Flunking Democracy: Schools, Courts, and Civic Participation
The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance and circulation of one-sided and factually erroneo...
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Trubowitz
Geopolitics and Democracy
A large and widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On issues ranging from immigration and international trade to national security, new political parties on the left and the right are rejecting the core fore...
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Freedom Democracy Truth Flag 3x5 Ft House Banner Outdoor Boat Yard Sign
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Professor Leela Gandhi
The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955
Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in  The Common Cause , Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics ...
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Richard Arlington Arlington
KISS your Democracy Bye Bye
The democracy problem in America is a real and urgent issue that requires our immediate attention. Our government has been corrupted by corporate and special interests and our representatives- no longer truly represent the people. The erosion of trust in our leaders and institutions threatens to und...
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Elijah Cummings
We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy – An NAACP Award-Winning Memoir on Oversight and Accountability
One of Essence's Best Books of the Year. NAACP Image Awards Winner for Outstanding Literary Work in the Debut Author category. With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “There was no greater friend to the poor, to the lost, to the left out, and to  the left behind. If you want to understand thi...
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Vincent Harding
America Will Be!: Conversations on Hope, Freedom, and Democracy
This illuminating dialogue between Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda and Vincent Harding, a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., recounts the historic events of the American civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the spiritual and philosophical values and ideas that they believe should g...
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L. L. Welborn
Paul, Democracy, and the Corinthians
In this short and remarkable book L.L. Welborn outlines the complex and contested nature of 'democracy' in the Greek cities of the Roman East, where the apostle Paul established Christ groups, showing that writings of Paul and the development of Christianity reveal a strong and radical form of democ...
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Christopher J. Coyne
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy
Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in military interventions, from Germany and Japan to Afghanistan and Iraq? Do efforts to export democracy help as much as they hurt? These are some of the most enduring questions of ou...
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Martin Rausch
Finding Light Through the Cracks: Reinventing Democracy with Audrey Tang
When democracy becomes something that happens to us rather than something we do, a dangerous gap opens. We vote, then watch from the sidelines. Leaders promise change; little changes. Trust erodes. Some turn to strongmen who promise to clean house. Some disengage entirely. Taiwan made a different be...
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Joseph Fishkin
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
“Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.” ―James Pope, Washington Post “Fishkin and Forbath’s accessible work serves as both history lesson and political ...
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Tom Baldwin
Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
We all know something has gone wrong: people hate politics, loathe the media and are now scared of each other too. Journalist and one-time senior political advisor Tom Baldwin tells the riveting--often terrifying--story of how a tidal wave of information overwhelmed democracy's sandcastle defenses a...
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Trevor Ngwane
Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements (Wildcat)
Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book argues that they can. In a study conducted in dozens of South Africa's shack settlements, where more ...
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Jonathan Rauch
Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy (Politics and Culture)
Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy   “Concise and elegant. . . . Rauch applies careful research and incisive prose to examine, diagnose, and prescribe a cure for the maladies afflicting contemporary religious-political dynamics.”—Michael M. Rosen, Commentary ...
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