Democracy

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Ali Aslam
Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life (Critical Life Studies)
Ecological crises threaten all forms of life on earth. Democracy too is endangered, as popular discontent, elite malfeasance, and unresponsive institutions imperil its survival. Present political concepts have proven inadequate to meeting these challenges, and their inadequacies are themselves sympt...
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Stephen Boucher
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance (Routledge International Handbooks)
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edi...
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Heidi Boghosian
Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance (City Lights Open Media)
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post , most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingl...
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David Miller
Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy
The public relations industry is not just about celebrity gossip. This book shows how, whenever big business is threatened, spin doctors, lobbyists, think tanks and front groups are on hand to push the corporate interest, often at the public's expense.  Written by leading activists and writers, t...
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Daniel A. Bell
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context
Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal Democracy , which continues the author's influential earlier work, is divided into three parts that corre...
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Jason Brennan
Debating Democracy: Do We Need More or Less? (Debating Ethics)
Around the world, faith in democracy is falling. Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela have moved from flawed democracies to authoritarian regimes. Brexit and the rise of far-right parties show that even stable Western democracies are struggling. Partisanship and mutual distrust are increasing. What, if any...
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John Loughlin
The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe
The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe analyses the state of play of democracy at the subnational level in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. It places subnational democracy in the context of the distinctive Anglo, the French, the German, and Scandina...
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Michael Signer
Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies
A demagogue is a tyrant who owes his initial rise to the democratic support of the masses. Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, and Moqtada al-Sadr are all clear examples of this dangerous byproduct of democracy. Demagogue takes a long view of the fight to defend democracy from within, from the brutal general ...
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Larry Diamond
The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
One of America's preeminent experts on democracy charts the future prospects for freedom around the world in the aftermath of Iraq and deepening authoritarianism Over three decades, the world was transformed. In 1974, nearly three-quarters of all countries were dictatorships; today, more than half...
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Julia Maskivker
Dialogues on Democracy (Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems)
Dialogues on Democracy offers a panoramic overview of recent and classical debates on the meaning of democracy as a philosophical ideal. It features some of the most central discussions that exist in the literature regarding its value, its purpose, and its (possible) flaws. Accessibly written and e...
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Kevin O'Leary
Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America
Saving Democracy presents a bold yet practical plan for reinventing American democracy for the twenty-first century. The book diagnoses contemporary political ills as symptoms of corruption in our large republic and develops a new understanding of representative democracy. Building on the ideas of ...
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Fred Dallmayr
The Promise of Democracy: Political Agency and Transformation
Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation. A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon suc...
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John Gastil
The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is a terrific resource for democratic practitioners and theorists alike. It combines rich case material from many cities and types of institutional settings with careful reflection on core principles. It generates hope for a renewed democracy, tempered with criti...
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Wolf Linder
Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies
This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important...
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James T. Kloppenberg
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that continues to our own day. In the ...
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Michael Gorup
The Counterrevolutionary Shadow: Race, Democracy, and the Making of the American People (American Political Thought)
A bold explanation of how reactionary political movements appeal to racism to reconcile American democracy with antidemocratic practices. “All power to the people!” So goes the familiar slogan of 1960s racial justice politics. The message is clear: the fight against racism is a fight for greater...
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Nadia Urbinati
Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy
A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy. Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this disruptive political phenomenon remains woefully inadequate. Politicians of all stripes appeal to the in...
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David C. Berliner
Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy
In this important collection, eminent education scholars and practitioners remind us that our nation’s system of free universal public education is under attack, putting our very democracy in jeopardy. Over and above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare our youth to ...
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Simon During
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations
This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and val...
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