Democracy

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Jeff Spinner-Halev
Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
A deep examination of why respect is in short supply in politics today and why it matters. Respect is in trouble in the United States. Many Americans believe respecting others is a necessary virtue, yet many struggle to respect opposing partisans. Surprisingly, it is liberal citizens, who hold respe...
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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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Anne Hays Egan
Grieving Our Loss Of Democracy: How We Can Navigate Our Grief When Nothing Makes Sense Any More (Community Uplift Series)
Do you feel like the world you once knew is falling apart? Polarization, rising authoritarianism, political chaos, and our ongoing sense of loss make it hard to find meaning right now. Many of us feel angry, confused, or hopeless. What we're experiencing has a name: GRIEF. This 5-Star Gold Awar...
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Kenneth Scott Latourette
The Christian Basis Of World Democracy (1919)
The Christian Basis Of World Democracy is a book written by Kenneth Scott Latourette and published in 1919. The book explores the idea that democracy is rooted in Christian principles and values. Latourette argues that democracy is not just a political system, but a way of life that is grounded in t...
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Fathali M. Moghaddam
Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty
PROSE Award Finalist This book explores the recent international decline in democracy and the psychological appeal of authoritarianism in the context of rapid globalization. The rise of populist movements and leaders across the globe has produced serious and unexpected challenges to human righ...
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William L. Patch
Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980
Why has democracy flourished in the Federal Republic of Germany despite that country's troubled past? Exhaustive research in German historical archives illuminates the pivotal role played by the veterans of the Christian trade unions of the Weimar Republic, the only group to participate in both of G...
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Jamila Michener
Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities Each year, as many as 250 million Americans face civil legal problems like eviction, debt collection, and substandard housing. These problems are disproportionately shouldered by racially and economically margina...
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Ingu Hwang
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
The first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, this book offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democra...
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Nicholas Buccola
Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (American Political Thought)
Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the majority? When and why should we revere t...
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Azimi
The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule
The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 launched Iran as a pioneer in a broad-based movement to establish democratic rule in the non-Western world. In a book that provides essential context for understanding modern Iran, Fakhreddin Azimi traces a century of struggle for the establishment of representa...
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William Tell
A Treatise on Direct Democracy
William Tell's 'A Treatise on Direct Democracy' is a groundbreaking work that challenges the status quo of representative democracy. In this 56-page pocket book, first published in 2024, Tell explores four philosophical axioms that contrast direct democracy with its representative counterpart. Inclu...
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Niheer Dasandi
Is Democracy Failing? (The Big Idea Series)
This captivating entry in The Big Idea  series explores the history of democracy, as well as its evolution and viability moving forward.  Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. However, many more do not fulfill the four basic requirements of democr...
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FUNG
When Democracy Breaks
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderf...
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David Ingram
Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics: Principled Compromises in a Compromised World (New Critical Theory)
Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics develops a critical theory of human rights and global democracy. Ingram both develops a theory of rights and applies it to a range of concrete and timely issues, such as the persistence of racism in contemporary American society; the...
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Michael Mann
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. After presenting a general theory o...
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Dominic Erdozain
One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent...
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Benjamin R. R. Barber
Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age
Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self-government at least some of the ti...
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Charles K. Hyde
Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II (Great Lakes Books)
Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total war production, and this amazing output from "the arsenal of democracy" directly contributed to the allied victory. In fact, automobile makers achieved such production miracl...
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Louie Williams
Apocalypse in the Tropics Movie Review: Petra Costa's vision, the fall of democracy in Brazil and how the nation map was redrawn
What happens when the world's fourth-largest democracy crumbles from within? When a nation that once symbolized hope and progress becomes a cautionary tale of authoritarian rise?Through the unflinching lens of acclaimed filmmaker Petra Costa, "Apocalypse in the Tropics" reveals the shocking transfor...
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