Democracy

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Michael McCarthy
The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)
Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it. Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools , award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital. Today, finan...
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Tiffany Cross
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy – A Political Analysis of Electoral Power and U.S. History
A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country’s rising majority and exposing political forces aligned to...
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James E. Sanders
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these political experiments as corrupt pantomimes of governments of Western Europe and the United States. Challenging that perspective, James E. Sanders contends that...
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Singh
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he cons...
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Bob Bauer
The Unraveling: Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis
Now with a new foreword by Harvard Law Professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, and with a new concluding chapter from the author on the unprecedented ethical challenges in the first year of Trump 2.0. Essential reading for anyone interested in modern American politics, get...
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Jon Meacham
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this mo...
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Jeffrey Abramson
We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy, With a New Preface
In a new preface to this foundational book on the American jury, Jeffrey Abramson responds to his critics, defends his views on the jury as an embodiment of deliberative democracy in action, and reflects on recent jury trials and reforms. Praise for the previous edition: “Power to the persuasi...
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Justin Behrend
Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War
Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation, not only were black men voting but t...
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Patricia Aufderheide
Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy
How filmmaker-philosophers brought the dream of making documentaries and strengthening democracy to award-winning reality—with help from nuns, gang members, skateboarders, artists, disability activists, and more.   The evolution of Kartemquin Films—Peabody, Emmy, and Sundance-awarded and Osc...
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Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Corporations and American Democracy
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leadin...
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Richard L. Wood
A Shared Future: Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In A Shared Future , Richard L. Wood and Brad R. Ful...
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Jagannatham Begari
Interrogating Democracy and Human Rights: The Telangana People's Movement
This book traces the relevance of people's movements in India and their roles in making democracy stronger. It discerns the interrelation and interdependence between democracy and human rights, and assesses how grassroots movements could strive for the deepening and substantialization of democracy. ...
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Mark Kingwell
Unruly Voices: Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination
“Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher ... His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.”—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo Meet the “fast zombie" citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumpt...
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Burt Hall
The Right-Wing Threat to Democracy: The Undoing of America's Exceptionalism
p>For over thirty years, World War II veteran and author Burt Hall assessed accountability in government and national security. Now, this seasoned, professional analyst delivers a tough account of what went wrong in our politics and system of government over the past two decades and what we can do a...
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Jacques Ranciere
Hatred of Democracy (Radical Thinkers)
In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary s...
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Diane LILLI
Founding Dead: When Democracy dies, the dead rise.
In a fractured America marking the 250th anniversary of its founding, the first Republic trembles on the brink of collapse. The Constitution is under siege. Protesters vanish. Families splinter along ideological fault lines. Truth dissolves into noise. And from the shadows of executive power, a pres...
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David Art
The Resilience of the Old Regime: Paths Around Democracy in Europe, 1832–1919
In The Resilience of the Old Regime, David Art reevaluates the so-called first wave of democratization in Western Europe through the lens of authoritarian resilience. He argues that non-democrats succeeded to a very large degree in managing, diverting, disrupting, and repressing democratic movements...
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Benjamin J. Pauli
Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis (Urban and Industrial Environments)
An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint's struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy. When Flint, Michigan, changed its source of municipal water from Lake Huron to the Flint River, Flint residents were repeatedly assured that the water was of th...
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Stephen W. Sawyer
Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880
An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century. Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth centur...
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Ryan P. Burge
The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us (Why the Culture Wars Led to Polarization
The moderate American church is disappearing--and it's taking democracy with it. Many people assume evangelicals are Republican, Democrats aren't religious, and moderate Christians no longer exist. But that wasn't always true. In the 1980s, evangelicals were just as likely sit beside a Democrat as...
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