Democracy

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Mary John O'Hair
Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict (Communicating Science in Times of Crisis)
A timely and insightful exploration of the vital relationships among effective communication, education, peace, and democracy Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict explores the complexities of addressing divisive societal challenges, reducing con...
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Jie Lu
Understandings of Democracy: Origins and Consequences Beyond Western Democracies
The rise of authoritarian populism and declining popular confidence in democratic institutions has, of late, prompted many declarations that democracy is in crisis. Nevertheless, democracy still enjoys its supremacy in contemporary political discourse, with limited meaningful alternatives. Few of to...
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Brian S. Roper
The History of Democracy: A Marxist Interpretation
The concept of democracy has become tarnished in recent years, as governments become disconnected from voters and pursue unpopular policies. And yet the ideal of democracy continues to inspire movements around the world, such as the Arab Spring. Brian Roper refreshes our understanding of democracy ...
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Mr. Marvin E. Fox
Ice Water In Hell Democracy
Satire is the best method to write about our Republic's phony democracy, which remains with us today as an undefined system of government. Over a period of many years many Americans have assumed democracy to be our basic form of government. That assumption is totally false but politically useful. De...
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Michael Albertus
Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy
This book argues that - in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege, and the lived experiences of citizens - democracy often does not restart the political game after displacing authoritarianism. Democratic institutions are frequently designed by the outgoing authoritaria...
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Roslyn Fuller
Principles of Digital Democracy: Theory and Case Studies (Democracy in Times of Upheaval, 8)
Drawing on almost a decade of first-hand experience, Principles of Digital Democracy presents a unique look at digital democracy tools in action. Whether it is carbon budgeting in Canada, voting on legislation in Italy or policy consultation in Taiwan, this book explains not just what is possible ...
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A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia (Radical Perspectives)
In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral historie...
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Jennifer Greiman
Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form
For Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville's oeuvre, Jennifer Greiman argues that Melville's densely figurative aesthetics give form to a radical reimagining of democratic foundations, relations, and...
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David Stasavage
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation." —Steven Levitsky, New York Times –bestselling author of How Democracies Die A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this history teaches us about the ...
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Sheldon S. Wolin
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinker Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as "Polit...
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Dana D. Nelson
Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democr...
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Yoshinori Nishizaki
Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies)
The political history of Thailand since the overthrow of absolute monarchy in 1932 has conventionally been interpreted as a long series of popular struggles for representative democracy and against military authoritarian rule. Yoshinori Nishizaki argues that this history can be better understood as ...
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Francesca Polletta
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory demo...
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Richard Youngs
The Puzzle of Non-Western Democracy
Western democracy is being questioned around the world. At the same time, Western aid groups are quick to say that they are not trying to impose a particular style of democracy on others and that they are open to supporting local, alternative forms of democracy. This book examines what it is about...
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Jean-Luc Nancy
The Truth of Democracy (Just Ideas)
The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May ’68 and the recent criticism (some by French President Nicolas Sarkozy himself) leveled against the ideals and actors at the center of this important but still misunderstood moment in French history. Nancy here ...
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Zac Gershberg
The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion
A thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies since their advent: Though freedom of speech and media has always been a necessa...
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Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists
Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy’s achievements and its limits. In this classic work, noted political scientist Arlene W. Saxonhouse offers fresh and provocative explorations of ancient political theorists, lending new...
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Hugo Drochon
Elites and Democracy
Why elites always rule democracies—and why recognizing that reality can help us respond to the crisis of democracy today A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a populist revolt against elite...
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Stein Ringen
What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government
In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing. Yet he shows ...
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John I. Goodlad
Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy (Jossey-Bass Education)
The founders of our Republic envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe we must have universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education we must have democracy. But since the founding of...
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