Democracy

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Tom Malleson
After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in compl...
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Ismar Volić
Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What’s the least distorted way to draw vot...
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Benjamin Goldfrank
Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left
The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does...
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Olivier Zunz
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French ...
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Terry Maley
Envisioning Democracy: New Essays after Sheldon Wolin's Political Thought
Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations’ public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political perspectives. In Envisioning Democracy , the...
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Maria Isabel Puerta Riera
The crisis of democracy: On the threshold of post-democracy? (Crisis and Democracy)
The book Crisis of Democracy: On the Threshold of Post-Democracy? presents a theoretical journey into the notion of democracies’ crises for those interested in understanding the nature of the challenge the system faces worldwide. It discusses the development of representative democracy and its c...
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Julia Paley
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile
Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of población (shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in their community and to denounce military rule. How did their organization respond seven years later when Chile's transition to democracy brought an end to d...
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Jeffrey Haynes
Christian Nationalism and Democracy in Ghana (Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora)
This book investigates the impact of Christian nationalism on democracy in Ghana, arguing that proponents of a specific Christian worldview seek to remake the country according to their values and beliefs. Christian nationalism is a significant religious and political ideology in several African cou...
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Kei Nishiyama
Children, Democracy, and Education: A Deliberative Reconsideration
Looks at the present norms and practices of a new form of democratic education and children's democratic participation, utilizing both theoretical and empirical examination of children's deliberative agency. How children participate in democracy has shifted toward more communicative, networked, an...
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Ivan Cerovac
Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy)
This compelling new book explores whether the ability of democratic procedures to produce correct outcomes increases the legitimacy of such political decisions. Mapping and critically engaging with the main theories of epistemic democracy, it additionally evaluates arguments for different democratic...
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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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Benjamin Schuetze
Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 57)
Appearing against the backdrop of Jordan's remarkable levels of authoritarian stability and accounting for Jordan being one of the highest recipients of US and European 'democracy promotion' funding, Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism examines what external 'democracy promoters' actua...
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Sarah Tobias
Feeling Democracy: Emotional Politics in the New Millennium (The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century)
Cultural critic Lauren Berlant wrote that “politics is always emotional,” and her words hold especially true for politics in the twenty-first century. From Obama to Trump, from Black Lives Matter to the anti-abortion movement, politicians and activists appeal to hope, fear, anger, and pity, all ...
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Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre
Brazil’s democracy has frequently been described as unconsolidated, its citizens as apathetic and uninterested in politics. But in Porto Alegre, a host city to the World Social Forum, thousands of ordinary citizens participate in local governance, making binding decisions on urban policy on a dail...
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Anthony J. Spires
Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China
Bottom-up voluntary associations, it is commonly thought, are among the fundamental building blocks of democracy, preparing people for engaged citizenship. A great deal of interest in Chinese civil society is premised on the idea that such groups might foster the emergence of democracy. But in a soc...
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Guohua Sun
A Research on Socialist Democracy and Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
The theory of socialist democracy and the rule of law with Chinese characteristics is one of the important contents of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and it is also a basic component of the theoretical system of socialist law with Chinese characteristics. To understand the the...
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Shannon L. Mariotti
Adorno and Democracy: The American Years
German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944),...
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Sally A. Nuamah
Closed for Democracy
Every year, over 1,000 public schools are permanently closed across the United States. And yet, little is known about their impacts on American democracy. Closed for Democracy is the first book to systematically study the political causes and democratic consequences of mass public school closures i...
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Norbert Schaefer
Threats to Democracy: A Manifesto for Preserving Democracy
Here are the most important points from the text "Threats to Democracy – A Manifesto for Preserving Democracy": The text deals with the following points: 1. Current Threats to Democracy : Liberal democracy is pressured from both external and internal enemies. - Climate change poses a significant ...
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James T. Schleifer
The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America
An compact, accessible, authoritative companion to Tocqueville's classic work One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, Democracy in America continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political cul...
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