Democracy

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David Runciman
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition
Why democracies believe they can survive any crisis―and why that belief is so dangerous Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wi...
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Tina Nabatchi
Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy (Bryson Series in Public and Nonprofit Management)
A comprehensive text on the theory and practice of public participation Written by two leaders in the field, Public Participation for 21 st Century Democracy explores the theory and practice of public participation in decision-making and problem-solving. It examines how public participation deve...
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Stephen E. Gottlieb
Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics
Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America’s surviva...
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Robert P. Kraynak
Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World (Frank M. Covey, Jr. Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis)
Do Christianity and modern liberal democracy share a common moral vision, or are they opposed and even hostile to each other? In Christian Faith and Modern Democracy , Robert Kraynak challenges the commonly accepted view that Christianity is inherently compatible with modern democratic society. Con...
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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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Salvatore Babones
Dharma Democracy: How India Built the Third World’s First Democracy
India is one of the world's great democratic success stories. In this rigorously empirical analysis, a comparative social scientist – an American sociologist based in Sydney – offers a dispassionate assessment of India's democratic evolution. Benchmarking India against both established Weste...
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Jason Brennan
Against Democracy
A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutions Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us―it empo...
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James S. Fishkin
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?
In our modern world of propaganda, social media enclaves, misinformation, and manipulation, the connection between 'the will of the people' and political action has broken down, political divisions are becoming increasingly intractable, and democracies are growing ever more ungovernable. Democracy i...
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Garett Jones
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were hurting the economy. But, drawing together evidence and theory from across economics, political science, and even finance, Garett Jones says otherwise. In 10% Less Democracy , he makes the case that ...
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Garett Jones
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were hurting the economy. But, drawing together evidence and theory from across economics, political science, and even finance, Garett Jones says otherwise. In 10% Less Democracy , he makes the case that ...
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Timothy Mitchell
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the b...
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Minh Ly
Answering to Us: Why Democracy Demands Accountability
A new theory of democracy that emphasizes equal accountability and explains the crisis of democracy and authoritarianism as a misunderstanding of the popular will Elected authoritarians lead governments that persecute minorities and attack the rule of law—and yet they claim to be democratic, bec...
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Nathaniel Persily
Social Media and Democracy (SSRC Anxieties of Democracy)
Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock of this emerging multi-disciplinary field by synthesizing what we know,...
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Paul Chang
Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970-1979
1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "dark age for democracy." Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the "student revolution" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were followed by Korea's transition to democracy in 1987....
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John Gastil and Peter Levine
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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Zsuzsanna Szelényi
Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary
Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orbán. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orbán launched a series of 'reforms', fundamentally undermining the country's twenty-year, post-Cold War liberal consensus. For supporters and foes ali...
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Frank M. Bryan
Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet ...
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Ernest Knodel
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY July 4th, 2025: We The People
What does it mean to be a citizen in a democracy? This question is more than academic; it is a call to action. For democracy to thrive, citizens must understand its roots and principles. This book, "AMERICAN DEMOCRACY July 4th, 2025," aims to illuminate the history and meaning of our foundational do...
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Daniel Ziblatt
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in We...
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Martin H. Redish
The Adversary First Amendment: Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy
The Adversary First Amendment presents a unique and controversial rethinking of modern American democratic theory and free speech. Most free speech scholars understand the First Amendment as a vehicle for or protection of democracy itself, relying upon cooperative or collectivist theories of democr...
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