Democracy

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William F Murphy
Social Catholicism for the Twenty-First Century?--Volume 1: Historical Perspectives and Constitutional Democracy in Peril
This first of two volumes introduces the tradition of social Catholicism, not only in its earlier realizations, but regarding how a contemporary renewal might address the crisis in which constitutional democracies and the postwar liberal order are under assault by populist and even neo-fascist movem...
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Jeffrey Klaiber
The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America
No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democrac...
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Juan J. Linz
The Failure of Presidential Democracy: Comparative Perspectives, Vol. 1
Citizens of the United States, heirs to two centuries of democratic government, tend to believe that presidentialism – rather than parliamentarism – is the political system that best ensures a stable democracy. In Latin America, however, where many governments have been modeled on that of the Un...
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K. R. Slattery
Mastering American Democracy: A Guide to the U.S. Government for Citizens and Leaders
The Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Engaging with the U.S. Government In a time when democracy faces new challenges and civic engagement has never been more crucial, "Mastering American Democracy" delivers the essential knowledge every citizen, student, and leader needs. Whether you're a high ...
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Jo Leinen
A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century
Learn how a global democratic revolution can transform the global order. For the first time in history, all people worldwide are linked together in a shared civilization that spans the entire Earth. Humanity now has a common destiny. Global challenges such as war, poverty, inequality, climate chan...
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Amaney Jamal
Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a str...
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Dick Howard
The Specter of Democracy
In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism and makes possible a wholesale reevaluation of democratic politics in the U.S. and abroad. The author turns to the American and...
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Ronald B Shaheed
On Islam and American Democracy
Most American Muslims, today, are descendants of the Africans (many of them Muslims) who came to America in the hulls of slave ships more than 400 year ago and experienced nearly four centuries of perhaps the most heinous system of chattel slavery in the history of mankind; all under the mantle of â...
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Daniel M. Smith
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan (Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center)
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators. Ja...
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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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Mary Frances Berry
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with ...
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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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David Neuman
Patriots' Wake: When Democracy's Guardians Become Its Greatest Threat
PATRIOTS' WAKE: When Democracy's Guardians Become Its Greatest Threat In this explosive political thriller, retired CIA analyst Michael Collier thought his decades of witnessing democracy's collapse in foreign nations had prepared him for anything. He was wrong. When his daughter Emily, a dedicat...
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Doug Stephens
The Future of Competitive Advantage: A Business Plan to Save Your Customers, Your Company, and Democracy
An original discussion of how to find exciting competitive opportunities by reexamining how you do business For decades, business leaders have chased advantage through efficiency, innovation, and scale. But a deeper truth has emerged: no company can thrive in a society that is failing. After World W...
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Ray Brescia
The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Exposes the threats to our personal and political identity in the age of surveillance It has become alarmingly clear that our online actions are less private than we’re led to believe. Our data is routinely sold and shared with companies who want to sell us something, political actors who want t...
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Victoria Nourse
Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy
American law schools extol democracy but teach little about its most basic institution, the Congress. Interpreting statutes is lawyers’ most basic task, but law professors rarely focus on how statutes are made. This misguided pedagogy, says Victoria Nourse, undercuts the core of legal practice. It...
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Jon Elster
Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number 1)
It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, which is decision by discussion or deliberation. This volume is characterized by a realistic approach to the issue of deliberative democracy....
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Francisco Panizza
Populism and the Mirror of Democracy
Populism raises awkward questions about modern forms of democracy. It often represents the ugly face of the people. It is neither the highest form of democracy nor its enemy. It is, rather, a mirror in which democracy may contemplate itself, warts and all, in a discovery of itself and what it lacks....
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